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7/21/2025 2:32:17 PM
Syrian authorities on Monday evacuated Bedouin families from the Druze-majority city of Sweida, after a ceasefire in the southern province halted a week of sectarian bloodshed that a monitor said killed more than 1,100 people.
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7/21/2025 11:15:29 AM
Calm returned to southern Syria's Sweida province on Sunday, a monitor and AFP correspondents reported, after a week of sectarian violence between Druze fighters and rival groups that killed more than 1,100 people.
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7/20/2025 9:18:49 PM
The first humanitarian aid convoy entered the southern Syrian city of Sweida on Sunday, a Red Crescent official said, a week after deadly sectarian violence erupted in the Druze heartland.
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7/20/2025 7:37:27 PM
Syria's Druze heartland saw a shaky calm on Sunday after a week of violence in Sweida province that killed more than 1,000 people, the latest sectarian bloodshed since Islamists ousted longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad.
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7/20/2025 3:59:37 PM
The United Nations migration agency said Sunday that the number of people displaced by a week of sectarian violence in southern Syria's Druze heartland has risen to more than 128,000.
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7/20/2025 1:07:03 PM
A Syria monitor said Sunday that the death toll from violence in the country's south involving Druze fighters and their Bedouin rivals, as well as government forces, armed tribes and Israel, had topped 1,000.
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7/20/2025 10:27:05 AM
Fighting in Syria's Sweida "halted" on Sunday, the government said, after the southern city was recaptured by Druze fighters and state forces redeployed to the region where more than 900 people have been killed in sectarian violence.
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7/19/2025 9:39:31 PM
France’s foreign ministry on Saturday called on all parties to respect a ceasefire announced for Syria’s Sweida province, where clashes between tribal and Druze fighters have continued despite the truce.
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7/19/2025 6:21:13 PM
Syrian Bedouin and their allies fought Druze fighters in the community's Sweida heartland for a seventh day Saturday despite a ceasefire ordered by the government following a US-brokered deal to avert further Israeli military intervention.
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7/19/2025 10:23:16 AM
The United States said early Saturday that it had negotiated a ceasefire between Israel and Syria's government as new clashes erupted in Syria's Druze heartland following violence that prompted massive Israeli strikes.
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7/18/2025 7:41:12 PM
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday warned that escalating violence in Syria’s Druze heartland threatens to engulf the region, accusing Israel of fuelling the unrest, while Russian President Vladimir Putin voiced “deep concern” and called for urgent de-escalation through dialogue.
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7/18/2025 1:04:09 PM
Armed tribes allied with Syria's Islamist-led government clashed with Druze fighters outside Sweida Friday a day after government troops withdrew from the Druze-majority city, the warring parties and a monitoring group said.
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7/18/2025 12:36:49 PM
The United Nations rights chief demanded on Friday that Syria's interim authorities ensure accountability after days of deadly clashes in the southern city of Suweida that reportedly left hundreds dead.
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7/17/2025 11:18:04 PM
The United States said Thursday that it opposed its ally Israel's strikes in Syria, a day after Washington helped broker a deal to end violence.
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7/17/2025 10:56:23 PM
Egypt and ten other Arab and Islamic countries reaffirmed on Thursday their support for Syria’s security, unity, stability, and sovereignty, rejecting all foreign interference in its internal affairs.
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7/17/2025 10:06:33 PM
Minister of Foreign Affairs Badr Abdelatty and his Saudi counterpart, Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud, lauded “the significant momentum” in Egyptian-Saudi relations during a meeting in Alamein on Thursday.
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7/17/2025 9:23:25 PM
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday warned Israel was using the Druze minority in Syria as a pretext for expanding into the war-torn country.
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7/17/2025 8:24:00 PM
Syrian troops pulled out of the Druze heartland province of Sweida on orders from the Islamist-led government, following days of deadly clashes that killed more than 500 people, according to a war monitor.
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7/17/2025 6:15:47 PM
A Kurdish official on Thursday urged Syria's new authorities to rethink their approach to the country's minorities following deadly clashes with Druze fighters in the south.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
7/17/2025 4:52:21 PM
Egypt’s Al-Azhar strongly condemned on Thursday the recent Zionist attacks on Syria, saying it reflects the occupation’s agenda of spreading chaos and instability.
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