The recent spat in West Asia happens to be one between the Druze Shias and the Sunni Bedouins. In the recent past, and as a tradition of strategy, the Political Contest model as a ...

The violence erupted in the predominantly Druze city in the province of Suwayda (also known as Sweida) on July 12, two days after a Druze merchant was reportedly abducted on the highway to Damascus.

The Syrian government on Monday started evacuating Bedouin families trapped inside the city of Sweida, where Druze militiamen and Bedouin fighters have clashed for over a week.