Russia maintains two key military bases in Syria, including an air base in Hmeimim and a naval base in Tartous.

"To be honest, the Alawites clearly ask for international protection," a former Syrian diplomat told Newsweek.

Armed men loyal to the Syrian government carried out field executions and spoke of purifying the country, according to ...

At least 1,300 have been killed in Syria as security forces clash with loyalists of ousted president Bashar al-Assad. The violence is concentrated in Tartus and Latakia, home to Alawites. The Assads ...

Interim president Ahmed al-Sharaa accuses Assad loyalists and foreign powers of fomenting unrest with aim of dragging country ...

An ambush on a Syrian security patrol by gunmen loyal to ousted leader Bashar Assad escalated into clashes that a war monitor ...

Hundreds of people were killed and residents of Syria’s coastal governorates are scared to leave home. The government of Syria says it has ended an operation in the coastal governorates of Latakia and ...

More than 1,000 people have been killed in clashes in the coastal provinces of Syria, according to one war monitoring group.

Residents described shootings outside their homes and bodies in the streets in Syria’s worst unrest since Bashar al-Assad’s ...

The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says 162 civilians were "executed" in a coastal region linked to ousted ...