Thousands of people have protested in several cities across Syria after a video circulates showing an attack on an Alawite shrine in the north, a war monitor and witnesses say. Syria’s new rulers said the video was “old” and “unknown groups” were behind the attack,

Thousands took to the streets in several parts of the war-torn Syria on Wednesday following the circulation of a video purportedly showing an attack on an Alawite shrine in the country’s north, a war monitor reported.

Inside a stunning week across Syria following the overthrow of the Assad regime - FIRST PERSON: Bel Trew spent days travelling across Syria – from Aleppo in the north, to the capital Damascus and Deraa in the south – charting a nation coming to terms with the end of decades of brutal rule by the Assads.