Beirut, Lebanon, July 20, 2025 (AFP) - A week of violence in Syria's Druze heartland: What we know

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2025-07-20

Syria's Druze heartland saw a shaky calm on Sunday after a week of violence in Sweida province that killed more than 1,000 people, the latest sectarian bloodshed since Islamists ousted longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad. The Druze and Sunni Bedouin rivals have been at loggerheads for decades, but clashes that erupted last Sunday quickly spiralled, drawing in the Islamist government and armed tribes from other parts of Syria, and sparking a regional c......

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