Three months on, could Syria slide back into civil war?In the Alawite bastion of ousted president Bashar al-Assad, the bloodiest week in years with attacks and revenge killings of civilians that ...

Since Thursday, more than 1,000 people—including Christian minorities and Alawites, the sect to which Assad belongs—have been killed, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) and ...

It presents a major test of the new government’s authority and has raised the specter of a larger sectarian conflict in Syria, where tensions were already high as a result of the civil war.

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Syrian authorities face insurgency by Assad's Alawite sect War monitor says 340 killed by gunmen and security forces Dozens of security forces killed, security official says March 8 (Reuters ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Experts and archaeologists are returning to Syria’s war-ravaged heritage sites, hoping to lay the ...

The conflict poses a challenge for the new interim president as he tries to unify Syria and extend his authority over the entire country. By Alissa J. Rubin Reporting from the Faysh Khabur border ...

BEIRUT, March 6 (Reuters) - Syria received a new shipment of its local currency printed in Russia on Wednesday and more shipments were expected in the future, a Syrian government official said, in ...

On Dec. 8, after nearly 54 years in power and 13 years of war, the Syrian civil war came to an end. And with it, the fall of the Assad family’s rule. For many Syrian students who call the University ...

The clashes between security forces and loyalists of ousted Syrian president Bashar al-Assad erupted on Thursday. The government has said it was responding to attacks from remnants of Assad’s ...

In recent years, the green plains of Idlib province have seen some of the heaviest fighting in Syria’s protracted civil war. Since the Assad regime collapsed in December, the fighting here has stopped ...