As tensions mount between the Druze community and the Sharaa government, a fierce power struggle threatens to tear the ...

In just eight months of Sunni Islamist rule in Syria, already three large-scale incidents of sectarian violence have taken ...

Damascus Attorney General Judge Hussam Khattab affirmed that a specialized judicial and security investigation team has been ...

Five aid workers have been abducted in Syria while delivering supplies to the besieged province of Sweida this week, in what their colleagues told The National was an alarming development. On Monday, ...

Twelve civilians were reportedly kidnapped in Deraa province on Sunday while returning to Sweida, including six women. Local sources informed the local news website Suwayda 24 that the abducted people ...

However, in April 2025, the Druze-majority areas of Jaramana and Ashrafiyet Sehnaya in Damascus experienced heavy clashes between forces affiliated with the interim government and Druze factions ...

The stench of decaying bodies hangs heavy in the streets of the provincial capital in Syria's southern province of Sweida, where fighting recently erupted. The fighting killed hundreds of people ...

In the aftermath of intense sectarian fighting, the eerily silent streets of Syria's southern province of Sweida are filled with the stench of decaying bodies left uncollected for days amid scenes ...

Residents walk past a burned-out military vehicle after last week's sectarian clashes in the Druze-majority town of Sweida, Syria, on Friday, July 25, 2025.