Sectarian clashes escalated in Syria’s predominantly Druze region of Sweida as the country’s new Islamist regime struggled to implement a ceasefire after days of bloodshed. Shelling and firing were ...

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.

US Ambassador to Turkey and Special Envoy for Syria Tom Barrack warned that President Donald Trump’s lifting of sanctions and ...

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

Amid Israeli strikes and sectarian violence, Turkey is doubling down on preserving Syrian territorial integrity, hoping to ...

Sweida was "evacuated of all tribal fighters, and clashes within the city's neighbourhoods were halted", Syria's interior ...

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

Suwayda, the Druze community is facing what its members have described as an "ethnic cleansing campaign" amidst a rapidly ...

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

Syrian war monitor says fighting across Sweida province ongoing, although Druze fighters regained control of provincial ...

Late on Saturday, the interior ministry said clashes in Sweida city had been halted and the area cleared of Bedouin tribal fighters following the deployment.

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