Seven months after deadly clashes between Syria's Druze minority and government‑backed forces, the spiritual leader of Druze ...

Sweida security chief Sheikh Suleiman Abdul Baqi told Newsweek Israel's role may "result in more escalation." ...

Suspect arrested with help of survivor of attack, in which four people were shot dead and a fifth was seriously wounded while ...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Before the eruption of sectarian violence in southern Syria, Saber Abou Ras taught medical sciences at a university in the city of Sweida and was somewhat hopeful of a better ...

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The political deadlock in Sweida continues with little on the horizon. Sheikh Hikmat Al-Hijri, one of three Sheikh's who ...

An elderly Druze man stands near Syria's new flag and the multicolored Druze flag in Al Karama Square in the city of Sweida on March 4, 2025. AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki The Druze broke off from the ...

The Druze religious sect, enmeshed in an outbreak of tit-for-tat violence in Syria, began roughly 1,000 years ago as an offshoot of Ismailism, a branch of Shiite Islam. Most Druze religious practices ...

MAZRAA, Syria — Syria’s armed Bedouin clans announced Sunday that they had withdrawn from the Druze-majority city of Sweida after weeklong clashes and a U.S.-brokered ceasefire, as humanitarian aid ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Violence continues several weeks after clashes started between armed Bedouin clans, Sunni jihadist groups and Druze fighters on July 14, 2025, in Sweida, a city in southern Syria.

MAJDAL SHAMS, Golan Heights — For his entire life, Jalaa Ayoub could see Syria, just a few dozen yards away from the eastern edge of his town in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. But he could not go ...