Imad Baytar said his father, who worked for a taxi company, had gone from Jableh to Damascus and on his way back over the weekend "he was killed in the checkpoint.” Baytar blamed Assad supporters for the killing. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights ...
Plenty of Syrians are disappointed by the lack of justice for the former regime. Deals have been cut with commanders responsible for massacres under Mr Assad. “It was very clear that there was something boiling which had to do with accountability and transitional justice,” says Orwa Ajjoub, a Syrian researcher at Malmo university.
Syria's new authorities announced on Monday the end of an operation against loyalists of deposed president Bashar al-Assad, after a war
Residents described shootings outside their homes and bodies in the streets in Syria’s worst unrest since Bashar al-Assad’s ouster. More than 1,000 people have been killed since Thursday, a war monitor said.
Syria's interim government signed a historic agreement Monday with the Kurdish-led authority controlling the country's northeast, a significant step towards national unity. The deal includes a ceasefire,
The recent surge in violence reflects the power vacuum left in the wake of Assad’s downfall. Remnants of Assad’s loyalist forces are refusing to surrender while the new government struggles to consolidate control. Localized skirmishes have quickly spiraled into a full-scale conflict, with both sides accusing the other of war crimes.
After at least 200 civilians were killed in two days of bloodshed, Syria’s Ministry of Defense and General Security Forces halted operations on the coast against forces loyal to the deposed Assad regime on Saturday,
The government of Syria says it has ended an operation in the coastal governorates of Latakia and Tartous after four days of fighting between security forces and pro-Assad armed fighters. The unrest came only three months after the fall of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad in an offensive by opposition fighters.
They are the worst since Assad was removed from power in early December by insurgent groups led by the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham.
Thousands of people gathered in the Syrian capital of Damascus and in Idlib ... forces loyal to the ousted Bashar Assad regime in the Jableh district of Latakia province, which resulted in ...
Greece has been deeply alarmed over the renewed violence that broke out in Syria last week, in which over 1,000 people are reportedly killed.