The violence has raised the specter of a larger sectarian conflict in Syria and stoked panic in the coastal provinces of ...

Authorities extended the curfew in the cities of Latakia and Tartus in northwest Syria on Friday and launched large-scale security sweeps in urban centers, villages, and surrounding mountains to ...

The Syrian presidency announced on Sunday the formation of an independent national commission to probe the recent violent incidents in the port cities of Latakia and Tartus. Last week the coastal ...

Fighting has intensified in the village of Ta’nita, located in Syria’s Tartus province, according to a source in the Syrian interim government. The source claims that remnants of the former ...

where the former insurgents now in power have pledged to unite Syria after 14 years of brutal civil war. Overnight, Damascus ...

Historically, the Alawites have been concentrated in Syria's coastal regions, especially in Latakia and Tartus provinces. The Assad family, which ruled Syria for over five decades until December ...

Nearly 200 people have been killed in clashes between new government forces and loyalists in Syria - as the country ... the coastal cities of Latakia and Tartus and nearby villages that are ...

in the deadliest attack yet on Syria’s new security forces, according to government officials and the Observatory. Violence quickly spread across Latakia and Tartus provinces, longtime ...

International alarm is growing over fighting in western Syria, where hundreds of civilians ... in the former Assad heartland around Latakia and Tartus where Assad loyalist gunmen ambushed security ...

Hundreds of members of Syria’s Alawite minority, including women and children, have been killed in reprisal attacks after clashes between government forces and armed remnants of the previous ...

Damascus: Unrest has returned to Syria. There was a period of peace for ... of former President Assad in the provinces of Latakia and Tartus. The fiercest fighting is taking place in the coastal ...