Several days of bitter sectarian fighting in the south of Syria has brought the fledgling government in Damascus dangerously ...

Israel launched dozens of air strikes on convoys of government fighters and even struck the Syrian Defence Ministry headquarters in central Damascus. The Druze form a substantial community in Israel, ...

Syrian troops have pulled out of the Druze heartland of Sweida on the orders of the Islamist-led government, following days of deadly clashes that killed nearly 600 people, according to a war monitor.

One elderly man had been shot in the head in his living room. Another in his bedroom. The body of a woman lay in the street.

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

Israeli bombing and government’s apparent complicity in sectarian clashes have damaged efforts to unify country ...

Sharaa’s gamble on centralising Syria by force rather than democratic consensus building gets a deadly reality check in ...

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

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

Amid violent clashes in southern Syria’s Sweida governorate, a picture of grave human rights abuses and rising humanitarian ...

Israel on Friday denied reports on the Syrian state news agency that it had conducted further air strikes near the ...

The UN human rights chief says his office has received credible reports indicating widespread violations and abuses, ...