Defence Ministry spokesman says security threats have been neutralised in al-Assad strongholds of Latakia and Tartous.

The announcement comes as the fighting between pro-Assad militias and members of the security forces killed more than 1,000 ...

More than 1,300 people have been killed since Assad loyalists attacked the new regime forces, leading to massacres reported and an investigation ordered into the incidents ...

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war monitor, said 1,130 people were killed in clashes, including 830 ...

The violence has pitted the Islamist-led government's security forces against fighters from Assad's Alawite minority. The ...

Dmitry Peskov declined to comment on reports that some residents of Latakia remained on the territory of Russian military ...