The Latest Breaking News from Sweida

Agreements to halt fighting ease tensions, but fear and mistrust linger among Druze in post-Assad Syria.

United Nations special envoy Geir Pedersen urged Israel Saturday to halt its attacks on Syria "at once", after it carried out multiple air strikes targeting the Islamist-led authorities following sectarian violence this week.

Bayan al-Hinnawi, who spent years behind bars in Bashar al-Assad's Syria, joined crowds in the heartland of the Druze minority on Friday to celebrate the president's fall, "a dream" come true for the former prisoner.

Mourners and protesters gathered at the funeral of Jawad al-Barouki, 52, in Sweida on Thursday.

Turkish drone strikes on Christian force, Israeli airstrikes in Damascus, and protests in Sweida escalate tensions in Syria.

The 52-year-old becomes the first person to be killed by pro-government forces since the protests began in August.

The Syrian regime and allies stepped up attacks in the country’s northwest as a humanitarian crisis mounted in 2023.

Protesters in southwestern city have been taking to the streets to voice anger at gov’t over poor economic conditions.

Hundreds of angry protesters in southern Syrian have destroyed the statue of the country's late president as they marked the 2015 assassination of a prominent anti-government Druze leader

Anti-government anger is mounting in southern Syria, where rare protests in the heartland of the minority Druze community are now into their second week. The protests were initially driven by surging inflation and the war-torn country's economic crisis, but have quickly shifted focus, with marchers now calling for the fall…

Anti-government protests in southern Syria have stretched into a second week, with demonstrators waving the colorful flag of the minority Druze community, burning banners of President Bashar Assad's government and at one point raiding several offices of his ruling party.