March 7 (UPI) --At least 70 people have died in armed clashes between Syria's security forces and forces still loyal to deposed dictator Bashir al-Assad, according to the British-based Syrian ...

The clashes broke out Thursday in the Latakia and Tartous regions on the Mediterranean coast, areas where support among Syrian Alawites for Assad was strong and which has seen outbreaks of ...

As many in Syria celebrated the end of the long rule of Bashar al-Assad, rumors swirled about his whereabouts. The mystery didn’t last long though, as Russian state media announced Sunday night ...

It added that security forces killed 28 Assad loyalists as well as three civilians. Rami Abdurrahman, head of the monitoring group, said the gunmen who ambushed the police force are Alawites.

Nearly 200 people have been killed in clashes between new government forces and loyalists in Syria - as the country faces the worst violence since the fall of President Assad. Dozens of men ...

LATAKIA, Syria -- Clashes between Syrian security forces and gunmen loyal to former President Bashar Assad in the country’s coastal region have left more than 70 people dead and an area outside ...

In the biggest challenge yet to the new authority in Syria since coming to power in December, Assad loyalists launched a deadly and well-planned attack on government forces on Thursday in the ...

Syria's new government has allegedly requested that Russia hand over former President Bashar al-Assad and his close aides, Reuters reported on Jan. 28, citing a Syrian source close to the matter.

LATAKIA, Syria (AP) — Clashes between Syrian security forces under the country’s new, Islamist authorities and gunmen loyal to ousted President Bashar Assad in Syria’s western coastal region ...