While ostensibly aimed at restoring order, these operations have fueled further sectarian tensions, with reports of ...

Chaos in Syria deepens as a newly formed Iraqi militia vows to defend the Alawites from alleged Hayat Tahrir al Sham ...

Syrian security officials have arrested dozens of fighters on Friday following reports of widespread abuses in the central Homs province a war monito ...

Fighters affiliated with Syria's new Islamist leaders have carried out 35 summary executions over 72 hours, mostly of Assad-era officers, a war monitor said Sunday.

Six people were killed on Tuesday in Syria's central Homs province, a war monitor said, as security forces launched a sweep of the area.

DAMASCUS, Jan. 26 (Xinhua) -- The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war monitor, said on Sunday that it has documented 91 incidents of assassinations and retaliatory crimes by armed ...

Syria's interim rulers are trying to form a united national army after the fall of Bashar Assad late last year ...

As insurgents raced across Syria in a surprise offensive launched in the country's northwest late last year, officials from ...

The Syrian civil war has internally displaced 7.2 million people since 2011 while forcing 6.4 million Syrians to flee abroad as refugees. Third-year student Raed Alobeid was born in Homs, Syria and ...

Syrian state media said a five-day security operation in Homs city ended Monday, with a war monitor reporting hundreds of arrests in sweeps mostly targeting neighbourhoods of ousted president ...