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...

Israel says it has bombed Syrian government forces around Suweida, as they entered the predominantly Druze city following two days of deadly sectarian clashes. At least 200 people have been killed since the fighting between Druze militias and Bedouin tribes erupted on Sunday, UK-based...

Violent clashes erupted in southern Syria's Druze-majority Suweida on Tuesday as government forces entered the city, an AFP correspondent at an entrance to Suweida reported. A statement from Druze religious authorities had called for local fighters to lay down their arms. But...

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...