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Fresh clashes break out in Syria as the interim government struggles to ease tensions
New outbreaks of violence overnight into Sunday have rocked Syria at two distinct flashpoints, straining a fragile ceasefire ...
Syria’s president has opened up a hornet’s nest and it’s tearing the country apart
But its involvement risks deepening sectarian tensions. Israeli troops have seized parts of southern Syria, violating a 1974 ...
Syria forms committee to investigate Sweida violence
Syria has pledged to investigate clashes in the southern province of Sweida which killed hundreds of people last month -the ...
In Syria’s Sweida, the stench of death still lingers days after sectarian bloodshed
In the aftermath of intense sectarian fighting, the eerily silent streets of Syria's southern province of Sweida are filled ...
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Ceasefire falters as deadly clashes reignite in Syria’s Sweida
Deadly clashes erupted in Syria’s southern province of Sweida as “outlawed” groups violated a recently brokered ceasefire, ...
In the Golan Heights, Druze are loyal to Syria. But that loyalty is now severely tested
Sectarian violence in recent weeks in Syria's Sweida region has left more than 1,000 people dead. Druze in the ...
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Fighting flares up in Syria's Druze stronghold despite ceasefire
Fighting has erupted in the Druze-majority Sweida province of southern Syria, violating a ceasefire deal reached last month ...
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Syria: Fragile ceasefire in Sweida ‘largely holding’ amid volatility
A fragile de-escalation in Syria’s Sweida region is “largely holding” after weeks of violence displaced 175,000 people, ...
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Renewed clashes in Syria's Druze-majority Sweida kill four people, monitor says
Three Syrian security personnel and a member of a Druze militia were killed in renewed clashes in the southern province of ...
Syria forms panel to probe Druze-Sunni communal clashes in Sweida
The panel comes amid ongoing efforts by the post-Assad government to stabilise the country and address sectarian tensions ...
Bedouin civilians leave Syria's Sweida as tense truce holds
Hundreds of Bedouin civilians were evacuated from Syria's predominantly Druze city of Sweida on Monday as part of a ...
UN prepares aid to Sweida after Syrian government green light
The United Nations is preparing to send a convoy of humanitarian aid to Syria's southern province of Sweida, three aid ...