Sky's special correspondent Alex Crawford explains what is happening in Sweida as Syrian government forces maintain a fragile ...

More than a thousand people are believed to have been killed in a week of fighting in Syria 's Sweida, even as an uneasy truce reigned across the governorate on Sunday. Humanitarian convoys were ...

Sky News' special correspondent Alex Crawford is in southern Syria, where the government says escalating violence has been ...

The fighting is the latest challenge to the control of the government, which took over after rebels toppled autocratic president Bashar al-Assad in December.

Damascus believed it had a green light from both the US and ‘Israel’ to dispatch its forces south “despite months of Israeli warnings not to do so,” according to the sources, which include Syrian ...

A fragile ceasefire has brought calm to Syria’s Sweida province after a week of deadly sectarian fighting that left over ...

By Thursday, nearly 600 people were reported killed, including dozens of civilians and hundreds of fighters from all sides, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR).

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Israel is preparing to send medical aid to Sweida, Syria, to support the Druze and Orthodox Christian communities amid ongoing clashes, despite a US-brokered ceasefire. Over 940 people have died in ...

Historically, the Druze are an Arabic-speaking ethno-religious minority who are spread across Syria, Lebanon, Israel and the ...

Damascus believed it had tacit approval to restore control in Sweida; Israeli airstrikes followed reports of troop abuses, as ...