Syria’s Sharaa scrambles to contain deadliest violence in years

Damascus, Syria Reuters Syria’s leader vowed on Sunday to hunt down the perpetrators of violent clashes pitting loyalists of deposed President Bashar al-Assad against the country’s new Islamist rulers and said he would hold to account anyone who overstepped their authority. The clashes, which a war monitoring group said had already killed 1,000 people, mostly […]
Two days of clashes and revenge killings in Syria leave more than 600 people dead, monitor says

Reuters The death toll from two days of clashes between security forces and loyalists of ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and revenge killings that followed has risen to more than 600, a war monitoring group said Saturday, making it one of the deadliest acts of violence since Syria’s conflict began 14 years ago. The clashes, which erupted Thursday, marked […]