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

Citing the official, KAN reported that American support is conditional on Sharaa's actions not harming Israel's national ...

Five Magen David Adom ambulances were handed over to Druze and Christian communities in Syria in cooperation with IFCJ and ...

The destruction of Kurdish autonomy and the systematic persecution of Syria's religious minorities did not occur in a vacuum.

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 ...

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 ...

The collapse of Kurdish autonomy did not inaugurate Syria's current phase of violence; it confirmed a pattern already in ...

Syrian Druze militias were attacked by troops allegedly linked with the Syrian government in the Sweida region, while clashes ...

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MAZRAA, Syria — Syria’s armed Bedouin clans announced Sunday that they had withdrawn from the Druze-majority city of Sweida after weeklong clashes and a U.S.-brokered ceasefire, as humanitarian aid ...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