Syria

By: Suzan Fraser, The Associated Press Posted: 6:50 AM CDT Wednesday, Jul. 23, 2025 Last Modified: 10:45 AM CDT Wednesday, Jul. 23, 2025 ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Syria’s interim government has requested Turkey’s support to strengthen its defense capabilities, Turkish officials said Wednesday, following sectarian violence over the past two…

(Reuters) -The Syrian defence ministry said on Tuesday it was aware of reports of "shocking violations" by people wearing military fatigues in the country's predominantly Druze city of Sweida, and said it would launch an investigation. Sectarian clashes have escalated in Sweida this month between the Druze - a religious…

The shifting sands of Middle Eastern geopolitics have once again reaffirmed a cardinal truth of global affairs: in international relations, there are no permanent friends or enemies— only permanent interests. The recent developments surrounding Syria’s interim President Ahmed al‑Sharaa, Israel’s uncharacteristic overtures, and the West’s newfound willingness to normalize ties…

CNN  —  An American citizen from Oklahoma was among eight men, all family members, rounded up and killed in an execution-style attack during the sectarian violence that flared in Syria last week. Hosam Saraya, a 35-year-old Syrian-American, was identified by a friend and a US relative as one of eight…

U.S. envoy Thomas Barrack holds a news conference after Syria talks in Beirut, July 21, 2025. (Photo: Screenshot from Youtube video of DRM News) Washington sees no alternative to continuing to work together with the Syrian government that is dominated by former members of Islamist terror groups, Tom Barrack, the U.S. ambassador…

Just a few months into the tentative rebirth of a new Syria, a bloody sectarian conflict is once again raging in the volatile southern borderlands. War now threatens to tip the country over the edge and spill into an already unstable region. Fighting has engulfed Suweida, a southern city with…

Jerusalem Post / US Politics Trump wants killing to end in 'brutal' Gaza war, White House's Leavitt says White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt added that Trump was caught off guard by both Israel's strikes in Syria and the bombing of the Catholic church in Gaza. US President Donald Trump…

BEIRUT — More than a week of sectarian bloodshed in Syria has given way to a wary truce, pausing a fight that drew Israel into an unprecedented confrontation with Syria’s new authorities while raising fresh questions on whether those leaders can steer the country past the fractures of its 14-year civil war.…

An aerial view shows the city of As Suwayda, with smoke rising from burning houses amid clashes between tribal fighters and local Druze factions in southern Syria, July 19th, 2025. Photo: Reuters by Moawia Atrash Israel supplied the Druze community in the southern Syrian province of Suwayda (Suweida) with shipments…

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. The violence, which followed massacres of Alawites in March and clashes involving the Druze in…