Armed tribes supported by Syria's Islamist-led government clashed with Druze fighters outside Sweida Friday a day after government troops withdrew from the Druze-majority city, the warring parties

Syrian forces are preparing redeployment to Sweida as ceasefire collapses, prompting international concern over escalating violence.

Fresh clashes broke out overnight between the Druze minority armed groups and members of Bedouin clans in southern Syria, prompting government forces to deploy again to the area on Friday after pulling out under a ceasefire agreement that halted several days of violence earlier this week,

Church in the southern Syrian province of Sweida, smashed Christian symbols, and set fire to its ceiling and walls.

Israel's statement on Friday came just days after sectarian violence and Israeli airstrikes in Syria left hundreds dead.

Members of Syria’s Druze community are searching for loved ones and counting their dead after days of clashes in a southern province that left bloodied bodies of civilians on the streets and homes loo