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Syria's Druze find bodies in the streets while searching for loved ones after clashes
Members of Syria's Druze community are searching for loved ones and counting their dead after days of clashes in a southern ...
Al Jazeera on MSN28m
Israel reportedly targets Bedouin convoy in Syria in wake of strikes
A Bedouin military commander told the Reuters news agency that the truce only applied to government forces and not to them, ...
TASS Russian News Agency1h
Syria's interim president accuses 'illegal formations’ of violating ceasefire
Ahmed Al-Sharaa called on all sides to exercise calm and restraint, pledging to bring to justice those responsible for the violence "regardless of their ethnicity" ...
Boise State Public Radio1h
Syrian forces who fought Druze militias leave Sweida province under a ceasefire
The conflict had drawn airstrikes against Syrian forces by neighboring Israel in defense of the Druze before a truce halted ...
Who are the Druze and why does Israel say it is hitting Syria for their sake?
STORY: Violence in southern Syria has put a spotlight on a small but influential minority, the Druze.:: Who are the Druze?The ...
Key players in Syria’s latest eruption of violence, from the Druze and Bedouin to government forces
Clashes that shook southern Syria this week killed hundreds of people, including civilians, and drew in an array of local and international players, harking back to the dynamics of ...
Who are the Druze? Violence in Syria, Israeli intervention explained
The Druze, an ethnoreligious minority in the Levant region, began as a 10th-century offshoot of Ismailism, a branch of Shiite ...
France 24 on MSN15h
Who are the Druze, and why are they at the heart of Syria-Israel tensions?
Renewed violence in Syria between the Islamist-led government and Druze communities has drawn international attention to one ...