The recent surge of violence in Syria lays bare the challenges interim leader Ahmed al-Sharaa faces in delivering on his promise to lead a more unified country.

Reinforcement Syrian security forces deploy in the outskirts of Latakia ... Attacks on Alawites spread from Latakia into the ...

Israeli aircraft carried out airstrikes late Monday targeting the port city of Tartus in western Syria, according to Syrian state news agency SANA. The agency reported that the strikes did not ...

The Syrian Defense Ministry announced on March ... troops have been killed in the fighting in the Latakia and Tartus governorates. The death toll among civilians has exceeded 500, with most ...

Syria’s Ministry of Defense said on Friday, March 7, that the army had reasserted control over the coastal cities of Tartus and Latakia following deadly clashes with militants loyal to former ...

BEIRUT (AP) — A 12-year-old boy was among four people killed on Monday in Syria ’s Tartous province, a coastal region home to a majority Alawite population, provincial officials said in a ...

BEIRUT (AP) — A month after a wave of revenge attacks left hundreds of Alawite civilians dead, members of the Syrian religious ... into the nearby province of Tartus, with some later hitting ...