State news agency SANA reported "Israeli occupation strikes on the vicinity" of Sahnaya, southwest of the capital. Deadly sectarian clashes erupted overnight in Sahnaya, which is home to many Druze ...

The Syrian government rejected calls for foreign intervention after a Druze leader slammed Damascus over the latest bout of sectarian violence in the country.

Syria strongly condemned foreign intervention following a rare Israeli strike near Damascus on Wednesday amid deadly sectarian violence.

The strikes were south of Damascus, where Syrian security forces say they are battling gunmen from the religious minority.

Israel said it carried out a strike in Syria against “an extremist group” that attacked members of the Druze community, following through on a promise to defend the minority group after deadly ...

A partly burnt building after clashes in Sahnaya near Damascus — OMAR HAJ KADOUR Israel's military said Friday it launched air strikes near the presidential palace in Damascus after the country's ...

Syria’s Information Ministry said 11 members of the country’s security forces were killed in two separate attacks, while Britain-based war monitor The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 56 ...

After this week’s bloodshed, Druse leaders in Ashrafieh Sahnaya agreed to integrate militia fighters into government forces. But some residents remain wary. Syrian security forces escorted a ...

Israel Says It Carried Out Operation Against Gunmen Attacking Druze Fighters in Syria SAHNAYA, Syria (AP) — Israel said Wednesday that it carried out an attack in Syria on a group targeting ...

The violence in the suburb of Ashrafiyah Sahnaya, about five miles southwest of the Syrian capital, came one day after a wave of clashes in the Druze-majority suburb of Jaramana. A monitoring ...

In a joint statement on Wednesday, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz said the operation in the town of Sahnaya, southwest of Damascus, was a “warning ...

SAHNAYA, Syria — Israel said Wednesday that it carried out an attack in Syria on a group targeting members of a minority sect as a new round of clashes left at least 11 people dead, most of them ...