The challenge now is whether the two sides can de-escalate. Numerous Bedouin tribes from across Syria mobilized to fight in Sweida.

Government forces that were initially sent to restore order but effectively sided with the Bedouins against the Druze were ...

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

Sectarian-tinged clashes left hundreds dead and drew in Israeli military intervention. A U.S. envoy said Israel and Syria had ...

A Syrian military official said correspondence with the US had led Damascus to believe it could deploy forces to Sweida ...

Thousands went missing during Syria’s decades-long intervention in Lebanon. Months after the fall of the Syrian regime, ...

Video showed government forces on the streets of a predominantly Druze city and smoke billowing across roads as gunfire ...

Violence between government forces and armed factions of a religious minority in southern Syria has deepened divisions in a country still recuperating from a civil war.

The government of Syria confirmed on Saturday that it had struck a ceasefire agreement with Israel to end a conflict that ...

Syrian security forces are beginning to move into the restive province of Suwayda after days of communal fighting in which ...

Syria’s president declared a ceasefire after nearly a week of sectarian bloodshed in the south, but civilians said there was ...