A May survey by Etana found that only 21 percent of Alawites said they felt safe under the current authorities, compared with ...

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At least 240 people have been killed in northwest Syria as fierce clashes escalate between government forces and loyalists of ...

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Syrian human rights activist Ribal al-Assad tore into Europe for lifting sanctions against the nation’s new "terrorist" regime, which he warned is no better than his first cousin, ousted leader Bashar ...

Syria's new caretaker government announced the end of a days-long military operation against fighters loyal to overthrown president Bashar al-Assad on Monday, marking the worst fighting since the ...

The first wave of detentions in the new Syria came almost immediately – just after victorious rebels flung open the doors of Bashar al-Assad’s notorious prisons. As ordinary Syrians stormed detention ...

Tens of thousands of Syrians flooded the streets of Damascus on Monday to mark the first anniversary of the Assad regime’s collapse. The celebrations came a year after former Syrian dictator Bashar al ...

Assad's regime are reorganizing and rearming in a country with ample stock of leftover chemical weapons. Even a single successful chemical attack by Assadist insurgents in Syria could scare off ...

Rifaat al-Assad, the brother of the late Syrian President Hafez al-Assad known by critics as the “butcher of Hama” for crushing an Islamist uprising in the city in 1982 before unsuccessfully ...