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Druze leader slams 'genocidal campaign' against community in Syria
Syrian Druze spiritual leader Sheikh Hikmat al-Hijri on Thursday condemned what he called a "genocidal campaign" against his community after two days of deadly sectarian clashes left 101 people dead.The violence poses a serious challenge to the Islamist authorities who ousted longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad in December.
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Israel says its fighter jets bombed an area next to the presidential palace in Syria's capital, Damascus, as Prime Minister ...
“Israel struck last night near the presidential palace in Damascus,” Netanyahu said in a joint statement with Defense ...
Druze gunmen look up as they stand guard next to a checkpoint a day after clashes in the area between members of the minority Druze sect and pro-government fighters left at least four people ...
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Syria's Druze take up arms to defend their town against IslamistsSyrian estate agent Fahd Haidar shuttered his business and got out his rifle to defend his hometown of Jaramana when it came ...
"We no longer trust the body that calls itself a government," Hakmat Al-Hajeri, a leader in Syria’s Druze community, said.
Syria’s small Druze community largely kept out of the country’s long civil war but since president Bashar al-Assad’s ouster ...
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'Living in fear': Syria's Druze towns caught in flurry of violenceFor Zaydan Abu Fakher, a member of a Druze militia near Syria's capital, the past few days have been "the worst in Damascus ...
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