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.

Syrian government forces have started withdrawing from the southern province of Sweida following days of vicious clashes with ...

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Syria's defence minister announced a ceasefire shortly after government forces entered a key city in Sweida province on ...

Syria's Druze have reached a ceasefire agreement with the Syrian government in Sweida that will take immediate effect, Druze ...

Syrian government forces largely pulled out of the southern province of Sweida on Thursday after days of clashes with militias linked to the Druze minority that threatened to unravel the country's ...

The invasion of Sweida, by forces aligned with the Syrian government, opened the stage for further Israeli land-grabs.

Israel launched deadly airstrikes on Syria’s capital on Wednesday, and threatened to escalate unless Syrian government forces withdrew from Sweida, a southern province dominated by the country’s Druse ...

(Reuters) -Clashes between Syrian government troops and local Druze fighters resumed in the southern Druze city of Sweida early on Wednesday, just hours after a ceasefire was announced.