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Syria's interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa vowed Thursday that those behind violence against the Druze minority would be held ...

The Syrian government announced Thursday that local leaders would assume control over security in the city of Sweida in an attempt to end violence that has claimed hundreds of lives and prompted ...

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This escalation threatens Washington’s nascent normalization track with Syria’s interim president, and former jihadist Ahmed al‑Sharaa. President Trump publicly courted Sharaa in Riyadh in May, ...

Syria has been wracked by a new wave of deadly sectarian violence that has placed the spotlight on the Druze minority at the ...

DAMASCUS, July 17, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Syria announced that its army had begun to withdraw from violence-hit Sweida on Wednesday, following a wave of Israeli strikes on the capital and a US call for ...

The attack follows a wave of Israeli strikes on Syrian government forces during two days of sectarian clashes between local Druze and Bedouin populations.

President Donald Trump says it is “highly unlikely” he will fire Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell “unless he has to ...

The Justice Department has fired Maurene Comey, the daughter of former FBI director James Comey and a prosecutor in the ...

Israel threatened to escalate attacks on Syrian government forces unless they withdrew from Sweida, a southern province ...

Some Syrian military units are withdrawing from the southern city of Suwayda after days of deadly fighting. Secretary of ...