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.

Defence Ministry spokesman says security threats have been neutralised in al-Assad strongholds of Latakia and Tartous.

Fighting erupted on Thursday between Syria's new security forces and loyalists of the former government of toppled president ...

Syria’s interim government has announced the end of a days-long military operation against insurgents loyal to ousted ...

Syria’s interim government has announced the end of a days-long military operation against insurgents loyal to ousted president Bashar Assad and his family in the worst fighting since the end of the 1 ...

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war monitor, said 1,130 people were killed in clashes, including 830 ...

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