The death toll from two days of clashes between security forces and loyalists of ousted Syrian President Bashar Assad and ...

Striking out on a new course when presented with two unpalatable options is very much a pattern in the life of Syrian ...

With Israel's move into the Golan Heights demilitarized zone and southern Syria following the collapse of al-Assad's regime, ...

BEIRUT (AP) — The death toll from two days of clashes between Syrian security forces and loyalists ... Under Assad, Alawites held top posts in the army and security agencies.

The recorded documentation of every facet of official life so common of dictatorial regimes is an overwhelming legacy of the Assad family's reign of terror in Syria ...

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More than 1,000 people have died in clashes in Syria after violence erupted between ... the Alawites made up a large part of his support base and held top posts in the army and security agencies.

Moscow’s savagery in Syria, among other places, foretold its tactics today ... retreating from its planned siege of Kyiv, a top-level general takes over a war that had no single overall commander.

Relatives and neighbors mourn during the funeral procession for four Syrian security force members ... Under Assad, Alawites held top posts in the army and security agencies.