Syria’s interim government has announced the end of a days-long military operation against insurgents loyal to ousted president Bashar Assad and his family in the worst fighting since the end of the 1

Clashes between Assad loyalists and the country's new Islamist rulers in the former president's coastal heartland have killed more than 1,000 people, mostly civilians, according to a war monitoring group.

To those remnants and fugitive officers of the defeated regime—our message is clear: If you return, so will we,” Spokesperson Col. Hussein Abdelghani