War crimes and crimes against humanity might have been committed when brutal violence tore through Syria's southern Sweida province last year, killing more than 1,700, UN investigators said on March ...
Israeli leaders said they launched attacks on Syria this week to protect members of the Druze religious group in the ...
BEHIND THE LINES: Syria remains deeply divided along ethnic lines, with a series of ongoing “cold wars” underway between minority communities and the new Sunni Arab authorities.
The confrontations in the Druze-majority province of Suwayda recently escalated amid kidnappings, armed attacks, other disputes and a lack of action on integrating Druze into state institutions.
UN human rights experts expressed deep concern on Thursday over continuing violence against the Druze population in the Sweida region of Syria. Since the outbreak of fighting in mid-July, the UN ...
Government intervention on side of Bedouin tribes that clashed with Druze in Sweida last July triggered Israeli strikes; ...
Seven months of relative calm in Syria came to a bloody end last week, when what began as local skirmishes escalated into the worst fighting since the fall of Bashar al-Assad in December. The fighting ...
Hamas flags at the 25th anniversary rally in 2012 (Photo: Fars Media Corporation via Wikipedia CC BY 4.0) Syria appears poised to enter another bloody chapter, this time involving revenge campaigns ...