Israel and Syria agreed to a ceasefire after Israeli airstrikes defended Druze minorities from Syrian forces in Sweida province fighting.

The Syrian city of Sweida has become the epicentre of recent sectarian violence, with Arab tribes mobilising to help defend the Bedouin from the Druze majority stronghold.

Syria and Israel have agreed to a ceasefire, US ambassador to Turkiye, Tom Barrack, has announced, drawing an uneasy truce between the neighbours after days of air strikes and sectarian bloodshed in ...

Syrian government forces have left the southern city of Sweida, where days of sectarian clashes involving the Druze minority have left hundreds dead. Interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa made a call for ...

Israel on Friday denied reports on the Syrian state news agency that it had conducted further air strikes near the ...

U.S. Envoy to Syria Tom Barrack says that Israel and Syria have agreed to a ceasefire, following Israel’s intervention this ...

Ceasefire collapses in Syria, US expands migrant detention, and more. Here's what you need to know this Friday evening, July 18, 2025.

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

The monitor said 300 members of the Druze religious minority were killed, including 146 fighters and 154 civilians. At least 257 government personnel and 18 Bedouin fighters were also killed, while ...

Residents from the Syrian-Druze city of Sweida described friends and neighbors being shot at close range in their homes or on ...

Fighting resumed in earnest in southern Syria after a massive army of Bedouin tribes launched a new offensive.

Several days of bitter sectarian fighting in the south of Syria has brought the fledgling government in Damascus dangerously ...