The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that at least 16 security personnel were killed in the attack. Rami Abdurrahman, the head of the Observatory, claimed that the gunmen responsible for the ambush were Alawites. “These are the worst clashes since the fall of the regime,” Abdurrahman stated.

The conflict poses a challenge for the new interim president as he tries to unify Syria and extend his authority over the entire country.

Three months after Syria’s 14-year-old civil war ended, and as the holy month of Ramadan begins, euphoria is being replaced by anger at the continuing atrophying of the economy and at the apparent inability of the new government to reverse it.

Syria's national dialogue, held in Damascus at the end of February, was intended to chart the country's future, one that would have been unthinkable just three months earlier. However, the process and outcomes of the dialogue were flawed,

Among the uncertainties facing Syria is the future of U.S. involvement in the country. Since 2014, Washington has backed a de facto autonomous government in northeastern Syria formed principally, but not exclusively,

AIPAC and AJC are taking a cautiously hopeful approach to the new government in Damascus, while Israel is growing increasingly alarmed by the regime

Syria received a new shipment of its local currency printed in Russia on Wednesday and more shipments were expected in the future, a Syrian government official said, in a new sign of improving ties between Moscow and Syria's new rulers.

On February 25th, the Israeli airforce bombed military targets in the town of Kisweh, 20 miles south of Damascus

After the fall of Assad, many Syrians hope for a better future. But intense political and economic challenges risk derailing the transition. Europeans urgently need to do more to help stabilise Syria’