US Special Envoy for Syria Tom Barrack said on Friday that Israel and Syria have agreed to a ceasefire supported by Turkey, Jordan and neighbors. On Wednesday, Israel launched airstrikes in Damascus, while also hitting government forces in the south, demanding they withdraw and claiming that...

Hamas’ armed wing spokesperson said on Friday that while the group favors reaching an interim truce in the Gaza war, if such an agreement is not reached in current negotiations it could revert to insisting on a full package deal to end the conflict. Hamas has repeatedly offered to release...

Tribal fighters in the Sweida countryside found advanced military equipment, including two types of missiles. The first is believed to be a US-made air-to-air missile, similar to the AIM-9 Sidewinder, used to intercept aircraft in close air engagements. It can also be used against ground...

Local sources told Al Jazeera that tribal forces took control of the Al-Anqoud roundabout and entered the city of Sweida. The tribal forces had launched a counterattack in the western Sweida countryside following violations and killings committed by armed Druze groups against...

A joint Gulf-Arab-Turkish statement welcomed Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa’s commitment to holding those responsible for recent abuses in Syria’s southern province of Sweida to account. The statement rejected all forms of foreign interference in Syria’s internal affairs and reaffirmed...

The Turkish and Syrian presidents on Thursday spoke over the phone and discussed the latest developments in Syria following Israel's attacks, Türkiye’s Communications Directorate said. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told his Syrian counterpart Ahmad al-Sharaa that Israel’s attacks on...

The Hikmat al-Hijri militia continues to carry out systematic attacks against Bedouin tribes in As-Suwayda Governorate, amid escalating killings, displacement, and sectarian targeting, warning of a looming civil war. Zaman al-Wasl documented new testimonies, including audio and written...

Syrian government forces have withdrawn from the whole of Sweida province on Thursday after days of sectarian bloodshed in the heartland of the Druze minority, according to AFP. Syria announced it would be withdrawing its army from Druze-majority Sweida city on Wednesday night after...

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...

Among the remnants of Bashar al-Assad's regime, Hikmat al-Hijri stands out, not as a cleric, but as one of the most prominent leaders of the "remnants" who refused to accept the regime's fall and decided to fight in its name until the last moment—albeit under a religious and social guise....

Syria’s interim president Ahmed al-Sharaa said on Thursday that protecting the Druze citizens and their rights is “our priority,” as Israel vowed to destroy Syrian government forces attacking Druze in southern Syria. In his first televised statement after the powerful Israeli airstrikes on...

An Israeli military official said on Wednesday that some troops stationed in the Gaza Strip were to be redeployed to the area of the frontier with Syria, where Israel has struck claiming to defend the Druze minority. The military official told reporters during a briefing that some soldiers...

Israel has launched several air strikes in the heart of the Syrian capital, Damascus, as clashes continued in the southwestern city of Suwayda after a truce between government forces and Druze armed groups collapsed. Defence Minister Israel Katz said Israeli forces struck near the entrance...

Clashes between Syrian government troops and local Druze fighters resumed in the southern Druze city of Sweida early on Wednesday, collapsing a ceasefire announced just hours earlier that aimed to put an end to days of deadly sectarian bloodshed. The outbreak of violence in the...

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 of...

The US military has completely withdrawn from the Tal Baydar military base north of Hasakah province, in addition to dismantling its observation tower at the Jabal Abdul Aziz observatory south of the province, a local correspondent told Zaman al-Wasl on Tuesday. The correspondent observed...

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...

Saudi Arabia on Tuesday slammed the Israeli attacks on Syria’s government forces in Sweida, while welcoming the response by Damascus to restore security in the area after deadly clashes between Druze residents and tribal fighters. “The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia … expresses its satisfaction...

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...

Lebanon’s Druze leader on Tuesday called on Druze residents in Syria’s Sweida to integrate themselves into the state after deadly clashes ensued for the third day in a row. “The Druze in Sweida should integrate themselves with the state and not try to become isolated,” Walid Joumblatt said...