Israel launched powerful airstrikes in Damascus on Wednesday, damaging the defence ministry and hitting near the presidential palace as it vowed to destroy Syrian government forces attacking Druze ...

The strikes, launched hours after a drone hit the same building, also struck near the presidential palace in the hills ...

Days after intense fighting rocked the Druze-majority province of Sweida in southern Syria, a fragile ceasefire has brought a brief calm. However, for families returning to their neighborhoods, the ...

The conflict had drawn airstrikes against Syrian forces by neighboring Israel in defense of the Druze before a truce halted ...

Members of Syria's Druze community are searching for loved ones and counting their dead after days of clashes in a southern ...

For weeks, Israel has engaged in back-channel talks over a diplomatic agreement with the Syrian government. Its strikes on Damascus this week highlight a lack of strategic clarity.

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Western diplomats were passing near Syria's defence ministry in Damascus in an armoured convoy when Israel struck the building with several missiles on Wednesday, according to two people familiar with ...

President Ahmed al-Shara said the airstrike on Damascus threatened to escalate sectarian violence, in his sharpest criticism ...

The Israeli military said it had "struck the entrance gate" of the Syrian regime's military headquarters complex in Damascus.

The attack follows a wave of Israeli strikes on Syrian government forces during two days of sectarian clashes between local Druze and Bedouin populations.

Some Syrian military units are withdrawing from the southern city of Suwayda after days of deadly fighting. Secretary of ...