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.

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

To those remnants and fugitive officers of the defeated regime—our message is clear: If you return, so will we,” Spokesperson ...

A religious minority in Syria, the Alawite sect makes up 12% of the country's population, whose majority belongs to the Sunni ...