A prominent leader in Syria’s Alawite community described the ousted regime as an oppressive system and declared: “I say to all sects in Syria: You are my brother and my beloved, and I want to be like that in your eyes. Let us join hands and work together for the good of our homeland.”...

Two General Security forces were killed on Friday by the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces in Ashrafieh neighborhood in the northern city of Aleppo. Since the entry of the Military Operations Department into it, the city of Aleppo has witnessed an escalation in the pace of violence, which...

A car bomb exploded late Friday in the centre of the flashpoint northern Syria town of Manbij, causing damage but no casualties, a war monitor said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blast, said the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which has a network...

The wife and daughter of one of deposed Syrian president Bashar Assad’s cousins were arrested Friday at the Beirut airport, where they attempted to fly out with allegedly forged passports, Lebanese judicial and security officials said. Assad’s uncle departed the day before. Rasha...