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

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.

After a massacre perpetrated by Syrian government forces in a Druze city, the IDF launched airstrikes on behalf of its own Druze community.

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

In the last barely-functional hospital in Sweida, bodies are overflowing from the morgue, staff said, amid violence that has wracked the Druze-majority southern Syrian city for nearly a week.

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.

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 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,

Syrian government forces were advancing towards the southern city of Sweida on Monday to quell deadly clashes between Druze fighters and Bedouin tribes, with one Druze armed group saying talks

NPR's Leil Fadel asks Mahmoud Meslat, co-chair of the political wing of the Syrian Democratic Forces, whether Kurds in the semi-autonomous northwest region have a voice in the new government.