The worst violence to hit Syria since Bashar Al Assad's ouster poses a major threat to the transition, with mass killings of ...

The reported fighting in the capital, Damascus, and the second city of Aleppo marked the first such clashes there since the fall of the regime of Bashar al-Assad.

Nearly 1,500 people, mostly Alawite civilians, have been killed by security forces in just a few days, throwing into question the ability of Syria's new government to maintain peace in a country ...

Over 1,300 people have been killed in fierce clashes between government forces and gunmen loyal to the Assad regime, ...