A war monitor says two days of clashes between Syrian security forces and gunmen loyal to former President Bashar Assad have ...

More than 70 people have been killed and dozens injured in clashes between Syrian security forces and fighters linked to the toppled leader Bashar al-Assad, according to a war monitor. Syria's new ...

It added that security forces killed 28 Assad loyalists as well as three civilians. Rami Abdurrahman, head of the monitoring group, said the gunmen who ambushed the police force are Alawites.

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Ongoing clashes between the two sides have marked the worst violence since Assad’s government was toppled in early December by insurgent groups led by the Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham.

sharing pictures of the crowds. Russia, a key backer of Assad’s regime, is negotiating the future of its military bases in Syria with the new government. Asked about the fighting in the coastal ...

The clashes broke out Thursday in the Latakia and Tartous regions on the Mediterranean coast, areas where support among Syrian Alawites for Assad was strong and which has seen outbreaks of ...

LATAKIA, Syria (AP) — Clashes between Syrian security forces and gunmen loyal to former President Bashar Assad in the country’s coastal region have left more than 70 people dead and an area ...

Fierce fighting between Syrian security forces and gunmen loyal to deposed ruler Bashar al-Assad killed 48 people on Thursday, a war monitor said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the ...

The attack came as tensions in Syria ’s coastal region between former President Bashar Assad’s minority Alawite sect and members of Islamic groups escalate. Assad was overthrown in early ...