Israel launched airstrikes on Syria amid a spreading wave of sectarian violence in areas dominated by the Druse minority. Dozens of people have been killed in two days of clashes. By Euan Ward ...

Syrian security forces intervened to restore calm, but then Israel attacked Syria, claiming it was “defending the Druze”. The unrest comes as the Syrian government, in power since the fall of ...

Syria's Islamist leaders said on Sunday that Kurdish demands for the country to adopt a decentralized system of government in a post-Assad political order posed a threat to national unity. "We clearly ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - At least one person was killed and four others were injured in a series of Israeli airstrikes in Syria overnight, state media reported, amid deadly clashes between ...

Representatives of Kurdish groups in Syria called Saturday for a democratic state that gives the country’s Kurds their ethnic rights after the fall of Bashar Assad. Some 400 people representing ...

The attack came after the Syrian authorities were warned against marching to the villages in southern Syria where members of the minority sect reside. An infighting between Syria’s majority ...

Deadly clashes in Damascus this week between members of Syria’s Druze community and gunmen linked to the national authorities highlight how members of the minority group are increasingly faced ...

Israel's air force struck near Syria's presidential palace early Friday hours after warning Syrian authorities not to march toward villages inhabited by members of a minority sect in southern ...

JERUSALEM/DAMASCUS, April 30 (Reuters) - Israel said it carried out a strike in Syria against "an extremist group" that attacked members of the Druze community, following through on a promise to ...

Israel carried out several rounds of airstrikes in Syria between April 30 and May 3 that targeted an area near the presidential palace in Damascus and various sites containing military assets. Israel ...

In December, a consortium of rebel factions led by the group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham unexpectedly toppled the dictator Bashar al-Assad, whose family had ruled Syria for five decades. The new regime in ...