That understanding was based on comments from the U.S. special envoy and security talks with Israel, sources said.

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

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

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

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

Claim comes after Syria’s president orders a truce in the restive province and US brokers deal to end Israeli strikes.

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

Syria's Islamist-led government struggled to implement a ceasefire in the predominantly Druze region of Sweida on Saturday, ...

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

Clan fighters gathered in the Syrian capital Damascus on Saturday to support Bedouin militants in their clashes with Druze ...

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.