News

The Druze religious sect is an offshoot of Ismailism, a branch of Shiite Islam. About half of the roughly one million Druze ...
Armed Bedouin clans in Syria have withdrawn from the southern city of Sweida after over a week of deadly clashes.
BEIRUT (Reuters) -One elderly man had been shot in the head in his living room. Another in his bedroom. The body of a woman ...
Sweida, a Syrian city, experiences a 'tense calm' after a temporary withdrawal of Bedouin fighters. Despite the ceasefire, ...
A ceasefire went into effect late Wednesday, easing days of brutal clashes in Sweida. Now, members of its Druze community who ...
Syria's Islamist-led government said its security forces were deploying in the predominantly Druze southern city of Sweida on ...
One woman tells the BBC she cowered in her home waiting for gunmen to enter and "decide whether we should live or die".