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

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

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.

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

The Bedouins are traditionally nomadic, Arabic-speaking tribes who have inhabited the deserts of the Middle East and North Africa for centuries.