In Syria, violence continued between rival factions even after a ceasefire deal. Government troops withdrew overnight from a region as Israel said it would not allow Syrian forces south of Damascus, extending its attempted control of the area.

WALGHA: Armed tribes supported by Syria’s Islamist-led government clashed with Druze fighters in the community’s Sweida heartland today, a day after the army withdrew under Israeli bombardment and diplomatic pressure.

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 postwar transition.

Wildfires in northwestern Syria, which have burned vast tracts of forest and farmland and forced evacuations, have been brought under control after 10 days.

Amid the exhaustion of ongoing war in Gaza and the aftermath of a bruising air-and-missile conflict with Iran, Israel now confronts the unwanted possibility of big trouble on yet another front — this time with the new regime in Syria.

Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar urges the UN Security Council to act against Syria's brutal persecution of Druze civilians in Sweida, calling for accountability and warning that silence enables further atrocities against minorities across Syria.

The fall of Syria’s dictatorship last year brought the end of a long and bloody civil conflict — but no quick relief to millions of Syrians living in the war-shattered nation.

The mountainous coastal region in northwest Syria, particularly the northern rural areas of Latakia, is experiencing one of the worst waves of wildfires in years. The fires have spread extensively, consuming vast tracts of forests and agricultural lands amid rugged terrain and strong winds,

HTS governed parts of northwest Syria, primarily in the Idlib province, for years under what it called the Syrian Salvation Government.

Thousands of Syrian rebel fighters have pushed forward with their offensive in the northwest, moving closer to the city of Aleppo.