Syrian government forces have started withdrawing from the southern province of Sweida following days of vicious clashes with ...

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Residents emerged from their homes to scenes of devastation on Thursday after government forces withdrew from the Syrian ...

The fighting had threatened to unravel Syria's post-war political transition and brought further military intervention by ...

What began as a local dispute over the weekend between Druze and Bedouin communities in southern Syria escalated on Wednesday when Israel bombed Syria’s Ministry of Defence and other sites in Damascus ...

Israel launched deadly airstrikes on Syria’s capital on Wednesday, and threatened to escalate unless Syrian government forces withdrew from Sweida, a southern province dominated by the country’s Druse ...

Convoys of Syrian security forces were seen moving outside of Sweida on Wednesday (July 16) night. Scores of people have been killed this week in violence in and around the predominantly Druze city, ...

The Syrian government announced Thursday that local leaders would assume control over security in the city of Sweida in an attempt to end violence that has claimed hundreds of lives and prompted ...