Armed Bedouin clans in Syria have withdrawn from the southern city of Sweida after over a week of deadly clashes.

The Druze religious sect is an offshoot of Ismailism, a branch of Shiite Islam. About half of the roughly one million Druze ...

The Druze-majority city of Sweida in southern Syria witnessed a week of heavy clashes coupled with an offensive by ...

SWEIDA, Syria: Druze fighters pushed out rival armed factions from Syria’s southern city of Sweida on Saturday (Jul 19), a ...

The clashes between militias of the Druze religious minority and Sunni Muslim groups killed hundreds and threatened to ...

Badly needed humanitarian supplies started to reach Syria's Druze-majority Sweida province on Sunday, a day after a ceasefire ...

Suwayda, the Druze community is facing what its members have described as an "ethnic cleansing campaign" amidst a rapidly ...

The interior ministry said clashes in Sweida city had been halted and the area cleared of Bedouin tribal fighters following the deployment.

Spiraling violence in southern Syria has turned global attention to the Druze, an ethno-religious minority of around 1 ...

Government forces that were initially sent to restore order but effectively sided with the Bedouins against the Druze were ...

Under Israeli bombardment and diplomatic pressure, Ahmed al-Sharaa pulled troops from Syria's Druze heartland -- a move that exposes the interim leader's weakness just ...

Sectarian clashes escalated in Syria's predominantly Druze region of Sweida on Saturday, with machine-gun fire and mortar shelling ringing out after days of bloodshed as the Islamist-led government ...