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Heba’s days are spent thinking about a city on the other side of the world
Two cousins and her aunt are dead, and Heba Kassoua’s grandfather’s home has been burned to the ground.The 36-year-old ...
Turkish foreign minister meets Syrian interim president in the aftermath of sectarian violence
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan has met with Syrian interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa in Damascus. Syria’s state-run ...
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 ...
Geopolitical Futures2d
The Israeli-Druze Alliance of Necessity
Last month, clashes erupted between Druze militia groups and Sunni tribes in Syria’s southern province of Sweida. The enmity ...
The National on MSN2d
The full story of the Sweida operation: How a lightning offensive became a war
When Syrian President Ahmad Al Shara was considering sending tanks and troops to the mostly Druze province of Sweida amid ...
Tenuous Syria ceasefire falters
New outbreaks of violence overnight into Sunday rocked Syria at two distinct flashpoints, straining a fragile ceasefire and calling into question the ability of the transitional government to exert ...
Ya Libnan4d
Renewed clashes in Sweida between the Druze and government security forces. Four killed
Syrian state-run news agency SANA accused Druze groups loyal to influential spiritual leader Hikmat al-Hijri of breaching the ...
The Columbian5d
Violence erupts in increasingly tense Syria
New outbreaks of violence overnight into Sunday rocked Syria at two distinct flashpoints, straining a fragile ceasefire and ...
Fighters attack Syrian forces as ceasefire breaks down
Armed fighters attacked Syria’s internal security forces in the city of Sweida on Sunday, killing one person and breaking a ...