U.S. envoy to Syria Tom Barrack said early Saturday that Israel and Syria had agreed to a ceasefire following Israel’s intervention this week in fighting between Syrian government forces and Bedouin ...

Bloodshed in Sweida left at least 321 people dead, the Syrian Network for Human Rights said on Friday, in a new toll.

Israel has vowed to shield the area's Druze community from attack, encouraged by calls from Israel's own Druze minority.

Syria has been wracked by a new wave of deadly sectarian violence that has placed the spotlight on the Druze minority at the center of rising tensions with Israel. Dozens of people were killed this week after clashes between government loyalists and Druze militias in the southern city of Suwayda,

Syrian state-run media say Israel carried out an air strike near Syria's southern Druze-majority city of Suweida late on Thursday.

Mr. al-Shara condemned Israel for the “wide-scale targeting of civilian and government facilities” after it intervened following clashes between Syrian government forces, local Bedouin groups and mili...