Damascus believed it had a green light from both the US and ‘Israel’ to dispatch its forces south “despite months of Israeli warnings not to do so,” according to the sources, which include Syrian ...

The fighting is the latest challenge to the control of the government, which took over after rebels toppled autocratic president Bashar al-Assad in December.

During a U.N. Security Council emergency meeting, the U.S. ambassador said “the United States did not support recent Israeli ...

Israel continued its bombardment of the Gaza Strip, killing scores of Palestinians on Sunday while relative calm was reported in Syria’s Suweida.

Druze fighters had pushed out rival armed factions from the city on Saturday, a monitor said, after the government ordered a ...

Syria's government misread how Israel would respond to its troops deploying to the country's south this week, according to ...

Ceasefire in Sweida after Druze fighters recapture city, government orders halt to sectarian violence with U.S.-brokered deal ...

Historically, the Druze are an Arabic-speaking ethno-religious minority who are spread across Syria, Lebanon, Israel and the ...

Fighting nonetheless persisted in other parts of Sweida province, even as the Druze regained control of their city following ...

Syria has reported three fatalities and 34 injuries after Israel's airstrikes, with one explosion caught on live TV as a news ...

Syria's Sweida province has been engulfed by nearly a week of violence triggered by clashes between Bedouin fighters and ...