Syrian state-run media say Israel carried out an air strike near Syria's southern Druze-majority city of Suweida late on Thursday. The Sana news agency is reporting that "Israeli occupation aircraft carried out a raid on the outskirts" of the city, without giving any further details. Israel's military has not commented on the issue.

hundreds of Israeli Druze crossed into Syria on Wednesday to protect their Syrian kin from militant attackers.

The dayslong fighting threatened to unravel Syria’s postwar political transition and brought in further military intervention by its powerful neighbor Israel, which on Wednesday struck the Syrian Defe...

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

Syria’s government and a minority religious sect announced a new ceasefire Wednesday, capping days of violent clashes between the country’s military forces and some of its Druze population.

The Syrian foreign ministry said several civilians and security force members were killed in the strikes, but did not provide specific figures.

Syrian troops are trying to intervene in sectarian violence in the south between the Druze minority and Bedouins.

Israeli warplanes struck Syrian military headquarters and near the presidential palace in Damascus on Wednesday, as sectarian clashes in the southern part of the country quickly spiraled into a crisis...

The strikes followed escalating violence in Suwayda, a region in the south of Syria predominantly home to the country’s Druze minority.