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 ...

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

Hundreds of people have been killed in days of violence in southern Syria which began with clashes between members of the ...

Sky News special correspondent Alex Crawford is in Sweida in Syria, where she has witnessed mutilated, burned and decomposing bodies after a week of fierce fighting in the region.