Calm appeared to have returned to southern Syria’s Sweida province on Sunday after a week of sectarian violence between Druze fighters and rival groups allied with new authorities left hundreds dead. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that since around midnight, “Sweida has been experiencing a cautious calm”, adding ...
Syria’s new authorities misread how Israel would respond to its troops deploying to the country’s south this week, encouraged by US messaging that Syria should be governed as a centralized state, Reuters reported, citing eight sources familiar with the matter. Israel carried out strikes on Syrian troops and on Damascus ...