Sectarian clashes escalated in Syria’s predominantly Druze region of Sweida as the country’s new Islamist regime struggled to ...

The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) has said the death toll from violence in the country’s south had ...

Druze fighters pushed out rival armed factions from Syria's southern city of Sweida on Saturday (Jul 19), a monitor said, after the government ordered a ceasefire following a US-brokered d ...

Syria’s armed Bedouin clans on Sunday announced that they had withdrawn from the southern city of Sweida following over a week of clashes, as per a U.S.-brokered ceasefire agreement.

The Druze religious sect is an offshoot of Ismailism, a branch of Shiite Islam. About half of the roughly one million Druze ...

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

A series of tit-for-tat kidnappings sparked the clashes in various towns and villages in the province, which later spread to ...

Calm returned to southern Syria's Sweida province on Sunday, a monitor and AFP correspondents reported, after a week of ...

Days before violence broke out in Sweida between Druze and Bedouin tribesmen, the president of Syria, Ahmed al-Sharaa, was in Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan is a rising power in the region and has not ...