Dozens of people lined up to donate their blood as soon as the donation center opened and 40 samples were collected in just two hours. Magen David Adom began a blood drive on Sunday in the Druze-majority village of Isfiya to support Syrian Druze wounded by militia groups and Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) regime forces in recent clashes,

Nine days of armed clashes and serious abuses in Syria’s southern Sweida governorate have triggered a dire humanitarian crisis,

The violence was the first major incident to emerge after the ouster of longtime President Bashar Assad in December.

Syria's Sweida province has been engulfed by nearly a week of violence triggered by clashes between Bedouin fighters and Druze factions. Earlier on Friday, an Israeli official said Israel agreed to allow Syrian forces limited access to the Sweida area of southern Syria for the next two days.

More than 1,400 people were killed in several days of sectarian violence on Syria ’s coast earlier this year, a government investigating committee said Tuesday. The violence

Amid the recent outbreak of Syrian government-sponsored violence targeting the Druze minority, the dire plight of minorities, including Christians and Kurds, continues to warrant concern.

Eyewitness video released on Sunday (July 20) appears to show bodies, some of them covered or bagged, on the national hospital grounds in the predominantly Druze city of Sweida, following violence in Syria's southern province.

BEIRUT (AP) — A U.S. envoy doubled down on Washington’s support for Syria’s new government, saying Monday there is “no Plan B” to working with it to unite the country still reeling from years of civil war and wracked by new sectarian violence.