When the gunfire started outside her home in the Damascus suburb of Ashrafiyat Sahnaya, Lama al-Hassanieh grabbed her phone and locked herself in her bathroom. For hours, she cowered in fear as ...

The unrest began with a series of tit-for-tat kidnappings between members of the Druze religious minority and Sunni Bedouin ...

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 ...

ALBAWABA-At least 16 members of the Syrian security forces were killed in armed attacks targeting checkpoints in the town of Ashrafieh Sahnaya, southwest of Damascus.

Clashes between government forces and members of a minority sect in Syria have drawn intervention by Israel and once again raised fears of a breakdown in the country's fragile postwar order.

JERUSALEM/DAMASCUS (Reuters) -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 ...

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.

ANKARA. Israeli warplanes on Wednesday carried out a number of airstrikes on the outskirts of the town of Ashrafieh Sahnaya in the Damascus countryside, southwestern Syria.

SAHNAYA, Syria (AP) — 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, ...

Sahnaya is around 15km southwest of the capital and is home to residents from Syria’s Druze and Christian minorities. Local activist Samer Rafaa told AFP that “we didn’t sleep ...

A man walks past a partially burnt building following sectarian clashes in Ashrafiyat Sahnaya near Damascus on May 1, 2025. Syrian Druze spiritual leader Sheikh Hikmat al-Hijri on May 1, condemned ...

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