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The Druze are a tightly knit community – and the violence in Syria is triggering fears in Lebanon
Lebanon has a long history of sectarian violence, and the recent events in Syria are causing alarm among its religious ...
Opinion | Syria's Druze Community, Bombed By Israel, Has A Curious 'India' Link
The massacre of the Druze minority by Islamist and government forces provided Israel with an excuse to again start bombing ...
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 ...
Syria's Islamist Regime Is Testing the West's Conscience—and Winning | Opinion
Turning a blind eye to what is happening in Syria again would be a stain not just on American foreign policy, but on the ...
Israel National News12hOpinion
Needed: A Druze -Kurdish -Israeli alliance in Syria
For Israel, the transformation of Syria into a forward staging ground for Turkey poses an immediate strategic dilemma,’’ they ...
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 ...
Key players in Syria’s latest eruption of violence, from the Druze and Bedouin to government forces
Clashes that shook southern Syria this week have killed hundreds of people, including civilians, and drawn in an array of ...
DPA International on MSN4d
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
Al Jazeera on MSN1d
Syria signs $14bn infrastructure deals, will revamp Damascus airport
Syria’s fledgling government has sought investment to reconstruct the country after its devastating yearslong civil war.