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

Druze fighters had pushed out rival armed factions from the city on Saturday, a monitor said, after the government ordered a ...

More than 900 people have been killed in Sweida as sectarian clashes between the Druze and Bedouin drew in the Islamist-led government, Israel and armed tribes ...

Fighting in Syria's Sweida "halted" on Sunday, the government said, after the southern city was recaptured by Druze fighters and state forces redeployed to the region where more than 900 ...

The fighting has drawn in neighbouring Israel, which carried out airstrikes in southern Syria and on the defence ministry in Damascus this week while government forces were fighting with the Druze.

Syria's government misread how Israel would respond to its troops deploying to the country's south this week, according to ...

The decision on whether Zayn Rayyan Abdul Matin's parents, Zaim Ikhwan Zahari and Ismanira Abdul Manaf, will be called to ...

Torrential rains that slammed South Korea for five days have left 14 people dead and 12 others missing, the government said ...