The violence has raised the specter of a larger sectarian conflict in Syria and stoked panic in the coastal provinces of ...

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.

Authorities extended the curfew in the cities of Latakia and Tartus in northwest Syria on Friday and launched large-scale security sweeps in urban centers, villages, and surrounding mountains to ...

The Syrian presidency announced on Sunday the formation of an independent national commission to probe the recent violent incidents in the port cities of Latakia and Tartus. Last week the coastal ...

Syria has ended its Tartus port contract with Russia, allocating management of the facility to Damascus, according to the Kyiv Independent. The new government, which assumed power following the ...

By Christina Goldbaum and Reham Mourshed Reporting from Tartus on the Syrian coast The gunfire began at dawn on Friday in the town of al-Haffa on Syria’s Mediterranean coast. At first ...