10-05-2025
As Syria's Druze minority reels from violence, Israel pursues an opening
SWEIDA, Syria — Nervous Druze militiamen at checkpoints in southern Syria craned their necks in recent days to look inside stopped vehicles, sizing up drivers and bracing for new threats.
Clashes with pro-government fighters have killed dozens in this part of the country over the past few weeks. And the violence, coming on top of sectarian bloodletting elsewhere in Syria earlier this year, has provoked such fear among members of the Druze religious group that dominates Sweida province that some say they are now looking for help from an unlikely direction: Israel.
