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 ...

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

More than 900 people have been killed in Sweida as sectarian clashes between the Druze and Bedouin drew in the Islamist-led government, Israel and armed tribes ...

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

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

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the clashes since last week had killed at least 940 people. Read more at ...

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 ...