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Clashes that shook southern Syria this week have killed hundreds of people, including civilians, and drawn in an array of ...

After a massacre perpetrated by Syrian government forces in a Druze city, the IDF launched airstrikes on behalf of its own ...

Deadly sectarian violence in Syria escalates, leaving over 350 dead. Tensions between Sunni Arabs, Druze, Alawites, Kurds, and Christians threaten post-war stability.

President Ahmed al-Shara said the airstrike on Damascus threatened to escalate sectarian violence, in his sharpest criticism ...

Syria’s army began withdrawing from violence-hit Sweida on Wednesday after Israeli strikes on Damascus and US calls for a pullback from the Druze-majority city, state media said. Washington, which ...

In Damascus, between airstrikes and geopolitical tensions, lives a group of people akin to “conies in the rocks.” These are ...

Israel has threatened to increase its involvement in Syria and vowed to protect the Druze religious minority, which began as a 10th-century offshoot of Ismailism, a branch of Shiite Islam, the ...

At least 40 people were killed in clashes between armed groups in the southern Syrian province of Sweida, the Syrian Observatory for ...

The violence underscores the government’s challenge to assert nationwide control as ethnic and religious tensions simmer ...

The bombing at the Mar Elias Church in Damascus, Syria, last month that killed over two dozen people is an indication that Syria s Islamist-led authorities under President Ahmad al Sharaa are ...