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

Damascus believed it had tacit approval to restore control in Sweida; Israeli airstrikes followed reports of troop abuses, as ...

In southern Syria, the government has deployed security forces and pleaded for all sides to stick to a ceasefire after ...

Claim comes after Syria’s president orders a truce in the restive province and US brokers deal to end Israeli strikes.

The Druze religious sect, enmeshed in an outbreak of tit-for-tat violence in Syria, began roughly 1,000 years ago as an ...

Israel has been carrying out strikes on Syria since the fall of the Assad regime last December. This week saw a major escalation, when Israel said it attacked Syria to protect the Druze, an Arab ...