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

The Druze religious sect, enmeshed in an outbreak of tit-for-tat violence in Syria, began roughly 1,000 years ago as an ...

Armed Bedouin tribesmen near Syria's Sweida pledged to carry on fighting. Sectarian clashes escalated in country's ...

The attack, Tel Aviv claims, was aimed at protecting Syria's Druze minority, but Damascus called it a "flagrant assault" and a dangerous attempt to destabilise the country. The Israeli strikes ...

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

The fighting has drawn in neighbouring Israel, which carried out airstrikes in southern Syria and on the defence ministry in Damascus this week while government forces were fighting with the Druze.