The Latest Breaking News from Syria

Syria’s interior ministry spokesperson said earlier on Saturday that internal security forces had begun deploying in Sweida

Israeli intervention ‘reignited tensions’, with fighting ‘a dangerous turning point’, President al-Sharaa said.

Several days of bitter sectarian fighting in the south of Syria has brought the fledgling government in Damascus dangerously close to direct conflict with Israel, after Israeli warplanes launched strikes against government buildings in the Syrian capital, Damascus, on July 16.

Isa Giga was arrested last year after travelling to fight for the Jaysh Al Fath group in Syria

Isa Giga, 32, resigned from his job as a technical support consultant job and flew to Turkey before crossing into wartorn Syria in 2015.

Armed tribes supported by Syria's Islamist-led government clashed with Druze fighters in the community's Sweida heartland on Friday, a day after the army withdrew under Israeli bombardment and diplomatic pressure.

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Syrian forces will return to Suwayda after clashes between Druze militias and Bedouin clans. A ceasefire was mediated by the US, Turkey and Arab nations.

Under Israeli bombardment and diplomatic pressure, Ahmed al-Sharaa pulled troops from Syria's Druze heartland -- a move that exposes the interim leader's weakness just as he sought to assert control.