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.

Violence continues on the streets in southern Syria - where calls by the president for a ceasefire are lost in the fighting ...

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 ...

Syria condemns Israel's involvement and says the strikes resulted in deaths of members of armed forces and civilians ...

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

Armed Bedouin tribesmen near Syria's Sweida pledged to carry on fighting. Sectarian clashes escalated in country's ...

Sectarian clashes between the Druze sect and Bedouin fighters were inflamed by the arrival of government-aligned security ...