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Israel has struck military tanks in southern Syria, where government forces and Bedouin tribes clash with Druze militias.

Syria has reported three fatalities and 34 injuries after Israel's airstrikes, with one explosion caught on live TV as a news anchor was seen ducking for cover.

This interview with Hüseyin Ovayolu accompanies our online release of his photographic collection Uprooted, a black and white ...

The Syrian government says clashes in the southern city of Suwayda have stopped after a week of violence left hundreds of ...

Syrian security forces are deploying in the restive province of Suwayda after days of communal fighting in which hundreds of ...

Syrian government forces have started withdrawing from the southern province of Sweida following days of vicious clashes with ...

Clashes that shook southern Syria this week have killed hundreds of people, including civilians, and drawn in an array of ...

Syria's new government sent troops to quell fighting between the Druze religious minority and Sunni Muslim tribes. Then Israel intervened, bombing Damascus.

Israel’s demand for a demilitarized zone in southern Syria and its promise to protect the Druze minority are putting it in ...

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