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Left with bloodstains and bullet holes, Syria's Druze grieve loved ones
Hatem Radwan stared at the bloodstained floor and cushions in the Al-Radwan guest house in Syria's Druze city of Sweida, ...
Syria’s Druze fear for their future after sectarian clashes
Sectarian violence in southern Syria is shattering hopes for a united country among the country's Druze minority ...
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Death, fear, and despair enclose Syrian provincial capital of Sweida after fierce fighting
The stench of decaying bodies hangs heavy in the streets of the provincial capital in Syria's southern province of Sweida, ...
SDF leader meets French foreign minister as Paris prepares Syria negotiations
Noel Barrot spoke with Mazloum Abdi, the head of the Syrian Democratic Forces, on Friday, according to the Kurdish media channel Rudaw.The SDF is the main force in eastern Syria and played a key role ...
Syria’s armed Bedouins say they have withdrawn from Druze-majority city after weeklong fighting
Armed Bedouin clans have withdrawn from the Druze-majority Syrian city of Sweida after a week of deadly clashes. A U.S.
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Amid fragile ceasefire, violence in southern Syria brings Druze communities’ complex cross-border ties to the fore
When the Syrian civil war erupted in March 2011, Syrian Druze were targeted at times by both the Assad regime, which ...
Who are the Druze in Syria, and why are they clashing with government forces?
Clashes between Syrian government forces and Druze armed groups have escalated, drawing Israeli intervention and raising ...
Understanding the violence against Alawites and Druze in Syria after Assad
A scholar of religious minorities and the Middle East explains the historical persecution and marginalization of the Alawite ...
A Syrian American man is among members of the Druze community killed in sectarian clashes in Syria
Relatives and officials say a Syrian-American man of the Druze religious minority is among dozens of civilians killed in ...
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In Druze town where hundreds breached border with Syria, residents mourn one tragedy while fearing another
They cried, they hugged, and then they went back to opposite sides of the fence, in enemy states,” a soldier said, witnessing ...
Call It What It Is—Pogroms and Attempts at Ethno-Religious Cleansing of the Druze in Syria | Opinion
When we first received reports about the hospital massacre, we hoped survivors' minds had imagined it—trauma playing tricks.
Clashes rage in Druze region as Syria struggles to enforce ceasefire
The interior ministry said clashes in Sweida city had been halted and the area cleared of Bedouin tribal fighters following ...