It’s true that Bashar al-Assad left the palace on the evening of Saturday, December 7, and that Ahmad al-Sharaa entered it the next day without a single shot being fired in the capital. It’s a rare ...

Syrian authorities on Monday evacuated Bedouin families from the Druze-majority city of Sweida, after a ceasefire in the ...

While Brussels followed Washington in lifting sanctions on Syria in May, the European Union and its member states have the ...

Religious minorities in Syria face persecution under the new Islamist government, highlighting the critical importance of ...

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DAMASCUS, July 20 (Reuters) - Residents reported calm in Syria's Sweida on Sunday after the Islamist-led government announced ...

While strategic considerations were still in play, the heart of the decision lay in defending the extended family of Israel’s ...

Sharaa's hopes of stitching Syria back together under the rule of his Islamist-led government are complicated by the country's mix of sectarian and ethnic groups.

Sharaa vowed to protect minority groups including the Druze and the Alawites, who formerly dominated power in Syria. But ...

"If Israel feels that a certain leader...is an evident threat to its national security, it will operate," a former Israeli ...

The violence erupted in the predominantly Druze city in the province of Suwayda (also known as Sweida) on July 12, two days after a Druze merchant was reportedly abducted on the highway to Damascus.

Earlier Israeli strikes hit the Syrian defence ministry, as well as government forces in the southern part of the country.