By Timour Azhari DAMASCUS (Reuters) -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,

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 pu...

Israel says the purpose of the strikes, both in the south and in Damascus, was to end a Syrian government assault on the Druze and to enforce the demilitarised zone it had declared around Suwayda aft...