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

Hundreds of people have been killed in days of violence in southern Syria which began with clashes between members of the ...

Khalidi and Maya Gebeily DAMASCUS/BEIRUT (Reuters) -Syria's government misread how Israel would respond to its troops ...

During a U.N. Security Council emergency meeting, the U.S. ambassador said “the United States did not support recent Israeli ...

Damascus believed it had a green light from both the US and ‘Israel’ to dispatch its forces south “despite months of Israeli warnings not to do so,” according to the sources, which include Syrian ...

Historically, the Druze are an Arabic-speaking ethno-religious minority who are spread across Syria, Lebanon, Israel and the ...

Israel has achieved plenty of short-term military gains, but will that outweigh regional, and international, isolation?

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

Israeli intervention ‘reignited tensions’, with fighting ‘a dangerous turning point’, President al-Sharaa said.

IDF still working to return group to Israeli territory; war monitor raises death toll in Sweida clashes to 940, says figure ...

SWEIDA: Fighting in Syria’s Sweida “halted” on Sunday, the government said, after the southern city was recaptured by Druze ...

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.