Fighting resumed in earnest in southern Syria after a massive army of Bedouin tribes launched a new offensive.

DAMASCUS (Reuters) -Syrian leader Ahmed al-Sharaa accused Israel of trying to fracture Syria and promised to protect its Druze minority on Thursday after U.S. intervention to help achieve a truce in fighting between government forces and Druze fighters.

When sirens wail in the southern Israeli desert to herald an incoming missile, Ahmad Abu Ganima’s family scrambles outside.

Residents of unrecognized Negev villages are unable to get permits to construct secure rooms, so instead they improvise what they can, for peace of mind if not actual protection

A Bedouin military commander told the Reuters news agency that the truce only applied to government forces and not to them, adding that the fighters were seeking to free Bedouins