Russia maintains two key military bases in Syria, including an air base in Hmeimim and a naval base in Tartous.
The reported fighting in the capital, Damascus, and the second city of Aleppo were the first such clashes there since the fall of Bashar al-Assad's regime.
Syria has witnessed remarkable developments in recent days, with Israel taking a new approach that goes beyond traditional security arrang ...
At least 1,300 have been killed in Syria as security forces clash with loyalists of ousted president Bashar al-Assad. The violence is concentrated in Tartus and Latakia, home to Alawites. The Assads ...
The sectarian violence in the Alawite heartland on Syria's Mediterranean coast poses a major threat to the new transitional ...
Hundreds of people were killed and residents of Syria’s coastal governorates are scared to leave home. The government of Syria says it has ended an operation in the coastal governorates of Latakia and ...
More than 1,000 people have been killed in clashes in the coastal provinces of Syria, according to one war monitoring group.
The death toll from two days of clashes between Syrian security forces and loyalists of ousted President Bashar Assad and revenge killings that followed has risen to more than 1,000, a war ...
Clashes between government security forces and supporters of ousted former President Bashar al-Assad have killed at least 311 people in Syria since Thursday, according to a monitoring group that ...
The top commander of a Syrian Kurdish armed group, whose forces are in a separate battle with Turkey, had earlier blamed Turkish-backed Islamist factions for some of the most disturbing violence ...
Syrian Presidency/Handout via REUTERS TV THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. (Reuters) - Syria's interim President ...