Sweida

UN: No progress on Sweida peace plan as Syria’s Druze tensions persist

Ongoing rivalries, kidnappings and political disputes have derailed efforts to rebuild trust in Syria’s Sweida province, a UN official warned.

Tribal and Bedouin fighters deploy in the predominantly Druze city of Sweida, amid clashes with Druze gunmen in July 2025.
A syrian refugee takes part in a demonstration in Athens calling for women rights on March 8, 2017.

Majority of women abducted in Syria sectarian violence remain missing, report finds

VOLUNTEERS OF the National Guard participate in a simulation training in Sweida in January. Pro-Israel and anti-Damascus regime sentiments typically mark this heartland of the Druze community in Syria.

Cold war brewing in Syria as Druze, Kurds, and Alawites resist al-Sharaa's rule

A view of a Royal Jordanian Air Force aircraft before the airdrop operation of aid over Gaza on August 14, 2025.

Jordan is enforcing a red line in Syria via airstrikes - analysis


Inside Israel-Syria meeting in Paris: Talks on de-escalating southern Syria, IDF withdrawal

Topics included: compliance with the 1974 cease-fire agreement, violence in southern Syria, smuggling and refugees

Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad Hassan al-Shibani, in Moscow, Russia, July 31, 2025.

Syrian Druze protest waving Israeli flags, call for annexation by Israel

Footage shared on TV and social media depicted armed Druze protesters in Sweida, Syria, wearing military vests with Israeli flags, calling for self-determination.

 Syrian Druze fly Israeli flag in Sweida, July 16, 2025.

Our 'Never Again' is Now

A delegation from Na'amat, led by Hagit Pe'er, President of Na'amat Israel

The crisis in Syria's Sweida and its threat on Israel's northern border - analysis

The real question is not only whether Israel will help the Druze, but how it will do so without making them even more isolated in their homeland.

Druze leader in Sweida speaks

Meeting between Dermer, Syrian FM on Druze humanitarian corridor postponed - report

Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer and Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani are now likely to meet next week, sources told N12.

Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer; illustrative.

US Congressman Hamadeh, Israeli Druze leader hold solidarity meeting after Syria massacres

Hamadeh, a US congressman with Muslim-Druze roots, met Sheikh Tarif in Israel to discuss security and recent attacks on Druze in Syria.

(L-R) US Congressman Abraham J. Hamadeh (R - AZ) and Israeli Druze spiritual leader Sheikh Mowafaq Tarif

Can federalism save Syria from collapse? – opinion

As militias tighten their grip and minority communities demand autonomy, federalism emerges not as a theory but as Syria’s last realistic chance to survive.

 The leader of the Syrian Democratic Forces signed a deal on March 11 with Syria’s new president Ahmed al-Sharaa

Sexual violence in Sweida: A predestined chronicle of a failed response - opinion

It takes months, often years, to piece together the truth of what happened in such chaotic events. Do we wait for certainty, or do we speak now?

A DRUZE flag flutters on a street in Sweida last month. Gender-based violence has been a central feature of the atrocities unfolding in Syria; we cannot turn away from this truth, the writer affirms.

Armed groups attack security force personnel in Syria's Sweida, killing one, state TV reports

A security source said the armed groups had violated the ceasefire agreed in the predominantly Druze region

 Smoke rises over over Al-Mazra'a village, following renewed fighting between Bedouin fighters and Druze gunmen, despite an announced truce, in Sweida, Syria July 18, 2025.

Syria pledges to form committee to investigate clashes in Sweida

The committee would investigate reported attacks and abuses against civilians and refer anyone proven to have participated in such attacks to the judiciary.

 Members of Syrian security forces ride on a back of a truck after Syrian troops entered the predominantly Druze city of Sweida on Tuesday following two days of clashes, in Sweida, Syria July 15, 2025.