The UNHCR Representative in Syria, Gonzalo Vargas Llosa, said that approximately 176,000 displaced people have fled Sweida Governorate towards Daraa and rural Damascus in recent days due to the recent military escalation in the region. The UN official explained, in a post on the X platform,...
In a move described by observers as "a clear attempt to fill the state vacuum," the Spiritual Presidency of the Druze Unitarian community, headed by Sheikh Hikmat al-Hijri, announced the formation of a series of legal, humanitarian, and logistical committees to monitor the repercussions of the...
The main hospital in the southern Syrian city of Sweida is overwhelmed with trauma patients and working without adequate power or water after the local Druze minority clashed almost two weeks ago with Bedouin tribes. “Inside of Sweida, it’s a grim picture, with the health facilities...
An armed group stormed the town of Taldara on Friday evening in the countryside of the Ismaili-majority city of Salamiyah in Hama province, northwestern Syria, uttering sectarian rhetoric. This prompted an immediate security alert, a local source told Zaman al-Wasl. The attackers, riding...
