A masked fighter walks with a machine gun in Damascus’s covered market on March 29, 2025. LOUAI BESHARA/AFP via Getty Images
At least 30 people have been killed—and scores injured—in a fresh outbreak of sectarian violence in Sweida, a predominantly Druze region of southern Syria, the country’s interior ministry has said.
In a statement, the ministry attributed the clashes to the “absence of relevant official institutions, leading to worsening chaos, a collapse of the security situation, and the local community’s inability to contain the crisis.”
