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

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 ...

Summary executions and other atrocities have taken place in Syria’s coastal region following insurgent attacks on Syrian ...

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 ...

Fighting has intensified in the village of Ta’nita, located in Syria’s Tartus province, according to a source in the Syrian interim government. The source claims that remnants of the former ...

where the former insurgents now in power have pledged to unite Syria after 14 years of brutal civil war. Overnight, Damascus ...

The troubles erupted across Latakia and Tartus Provinces, longtime strongholds of Mr. al-Assad along Syria’s Mediterranean coast. The area has become a tinderbox since Mr. al-Assad was ...

The violence has broken out across Latakia and Tartus Provinces on Syria’s Mediterranean coast, the heartland of the country’s Alawite minority and a bastion of support for Mr. al-Assad.

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.

Historically, the Alawites have been concentrated in Syria's coastal regions, especially in Latakia and Tartus provinces. The Assad family, which ruled Syria for over five decades until December ...