The Syrian government announced Thursday that local leaders would assume control over security in the city of Sweida in an attempt to end violence that has claimed hundreds of lives and prompted Israel’s military intervention in support of the Druze minority. Syrian forces had deployed to...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government has reached a deadlock after two ultra-Orthodox parties withdrew from the ruling coalition, leaving it on the verge of collapse. The Agudat Yisrael faction, which holds three seats in the 120-seat Knesset, quit the government in protest...

Israeli strikes on the Bekaa Valley in eastern Lebanon killed 12 people, including seven Syrians, on Tuesday, Lebanese state media reported, as the Israeli army said it hit Hezbollah targets in the area. "Enemy warplanes launched raids on the Wadi Fara area in the northern Bekaa...

The death toll from ongoing clashes in the southern Syrian province of Sweida between Druze fighters and Bedouin tribes has risen to more than 100, according to what Rami Abdul Rahman, director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, told the BBC. The Syrian Ministry of Defense said that...