Calm returns to Syria’s Sweida after week-long sectarian clashes leave over 1,100 dead

Calm returns to Syria’s Sweida after week-long sectarian clashes leave over 1,100 dead

Calm returned to southern Syria’s Sweida province on Sunday after a week of sectarian violence between Druze fighters and rival groups that killed more than 1,100 people.

Bodies of people killed during sectarian violence the previous week lie in a street in the predominantly Druze city of Sweida in southern Syria on July 20, 2025.- AFP