Through the smoke rising from Sweida and the embers glowing along Syria’s coastline, the contours of a deeply fractured nation emerge. What’s unfolding in Syria today is not simply the latest chapter in a prolonged civil conflict. It is the manifestation of a more insidious transformation—one that is quietly redrawing ...
Calm appeared to have returned to southern Syria’s Sweida province on Sunday after a week of sectarian violence between Druze fighters and rival groups allied with new authorities left hundreds dead. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that since around midnight, “Sweida has been experiencing a cautious calm”, adding ...