Renewed clashes broke out overnight between Druze armed groups and members of Bedouin clans in southern Syria, and government forces were preparing to deploy again to the area Friday after pulling ou...

Bloodshed in Sweida left at least 321 people dead, the Syrian Network for Human Rights said on Friday, in a new toll.

Israel has vowed to shield the area's Druze community from attack, encouraged by calls from Israel's own Druze minority.

"For the Druze in Israel, what’s happening in southern Syria feels like October 7 all over again," said Avner Golov, vice president of the Israeli think tank Mind Israel.

Convoys of Syrian security forces were seen moving outside of Sweida on Wednesday (July 16) night.

In a televised address to the nation early Thursday, Sharaa said the Syria was faced with two options: either “an open war” with Israel “at the cost of our Druze citizens,” or allowing Druze clerics ...

Syria has been wracked by a new wave of deadly sectarian violence that has placed the spotlight on the Druze minority at the center of rising tensions with Israel. Dozens of people were killed this week after clashes between government loyalists and Druze militias in the southern city of Suwayda,

After days of bloodshed in Syria's Druze city of Sweida, survivors emerged on Thursday to collect and bury the scores of dead found across the city.

Though the truce — mediated by the United States, Turkey and Arab countries — mostly halted fighting between Druze armed groups and government forces, Syrian state media said Druze militiamen had lau...