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Following the Israeli strikes on Damascus, Syrian officials and Druze leaders announced a ceasefire that included the withdrawal of Syrian forces from the southern region of Sweida. The United States, ...

Syria has been deeply divided since the fall of the Assad regime in December, emerging from decades of dictatorship and ...

Armed tribes supported by Syria's Islamist-led government clashed with Druze fighters in the community's Sweida heartland on ...

The conflict drew airstrikes against Syrian forces by neighboring Israel in defense of the Druze minority before most of the ...

CAIRO, July 18. /TASS/. Thousands of Bedouins have fled Syria’s Sweida governorate for neighboring Daraa amid renewed fighting in the area, the Syria TV channel reported.

One woman tells the BBC she cowered in her home waiting for gunmen to enter and "decide whether we should live or die".

Syrian government forces had largely pulled out of the Druze-majority southern province of Sweida after days of clashes with ...

Israel has agreed to allow limited access by Syrian forces into the Sweida area of southern Syria for the next two days, an ...

MOSCOW, July 18. /TASS/. US weapons deliveries to Ukraine via the EU could face delays; clashes in southern Syria raise alarm in Turkey; and the West intensifies efforts to destabilize security in the ...

Violence again swept the Druze-majority city of Suwayda early Friday morning as the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports that nearly 600 people have been killed since fighting erupted ...

Spread across Syria, Lebanon and Israel, the secretive religious minority has long balanced integration and independence. Now ...