Syria’s armed Bedouin clans on Sunday announced that they had withdrawn from the southern city of Sweida following over a week of clashes, as per a U.S.-brokered ceasefire agreement.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

More than 1,000 people have been killed since sectarian fighting broke out a week ago, the Syrian Observatory for Human ...

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

Tom Barrack, who is the US ambassador to Turkey and Special Envoy to Syria and is aiding ceasefire talks, said the deal had ...

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

Damascus: Calm returned to southern Syria's Sweida province on Sunday, a monitor and AFP correspondents reported, after a week of sectarian violence between Druze fighters and rival groups that killed ...

"Bibi acted like a madman. He bombs everything all the time," one White House official was quoted as saying, expressing worry that such moves jeopardize American diplomatic initiatives.

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