As-Suwayda (Arabic: ٱلسُّوَيْدَاء / ALA-LC romanization: as-Suwaydāʾ), also spelled Sweida, is a mainly Druze city located in southwestern Syria, close...

As-Suwayda or Al-Suwayda Governorate (Arabic: مُحافظة السويداء / ALA-LC: Muḥāfaẓat as-Suwaydā’) is one of the fourteen governorates (provinces) of Syria...

The 2018 As-Suwayda attacks were a string of suicide bombings and mass shooting incidents in As-Suwayda, Syria on 25 July, 2018. At least 258 people were...

The As-Suwayda offensive (August–November 2018) began on 6 August 2018, in rural areas of the Suwayda Governorate in southeast Syria after the Islamic...

by escalating economic hardships erupted in the Druze majority city of As-Suwayda, initially drawing hundreds of participants. These protests, which quickly...

lit. 'Mountain of the Druze'), is an elevated volcanic region in the As-Suwayda Governorate of southern Syria. Most of the inhabitants of this region...

as-Suwayda District (Arabic: منطقة السويداء, romanized: manṭiqat as-Suwaydā’) is a district of the as-Suwayda Governorate in southern Syria. The administrative...

village in the as-Suwayda Governorate in southwestern Syria. It is situated in the southern Lajah plateau, northwest of the city of as-Suwayda. Harran had...

The As-Suwayda offensive (June 2018) began on 7 June in the rural parts of the Suwayda Governorate in southeastern Syria, after an evacuation deal was...

Al-Suwayda As-Suwayda Governorate is one of Syria's 14 governorates (provinces). It has an area of 5,550 km2. Its capital and major town is As-Suwayda....

Dimashq District and parts of Al-Zabadani District Shahba Salkhad Al-Suwayda As-Suwayda District (3 sub-districts) Salkhad District (5 sub-districts) Shahba...

Al-Suwayda Homs Tartus Latakia Hama Idlib Aleppo Raqqa Deir ez-Zor Al-Hasakah Sixty-four of the 65 districts of Syria have a city that serves as the...

al-Mazraa on 2–3 August 1925, and the battles of Salkhad, al-Musayfirah and Suwayda. France sent thousands of troops from Morocco and Senegal, leading the...

The Daraa and As-Suwayda offensive (June 2015) (titled "The battle of the crushing of the tyrants" by the Southern Front) was launched in eastern Daraa...

نواف فهد مراد; born on 1 April 1973 in As-Suwayda) is a Syrian actress and producer. Murad born in As-Suwayda to Durzi family, she studied English literature...

Monotheists" or "Army of Unitarians". The group mainly operated in the Suwayda, Deraa, Damascus and other regions where the Druze are concentrated and...

and Golan Heights to the west, Rif Dimashq Governorate to the north and As-Suwayda Governorate to the east. The governorate has a population of 998,000 (2010...

2015-11-14. "Disaster which killed 224 people caused by 'external impact on plane' as it emerges Metrojet airline had not paid employees for two months". The Daily...

However, anti-government sentiment remained strong in the region as protestors in Suwayda called for a boycott of the elections. Among the pressing issues...

the Druze through history as a refuge in the years of war. The whole region currently lies within As-Suwayda Governorate, as the governorate's borders...

that there is "no reason for coexistence" between Israelis and Palestinians, as the latter would reclaim their lands and "hunt [the Israelis] down to the...

The Islamic State (IS), also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and by its Arabic acronym...

The Sheikh al-Karama Forces was an armed group based in the As-Suwayda Governorate in southern eastern Syria, composed of Druze locals, the group was led...

Palmyra for their homes in as-Suwayda, but were detained by other Fighters of the Tribes. Eventually, the head of as-Suwayda's NDF intervened in order to...

Revolution in 1979, and the party's founders adopted the name "Hezbollah" as chosen by Khomeini. Since then, close ties have developed between Iran and...

القرشي) is the fifth and current caliph of the Islamic State. He was named as caliph on 3 August 2023, in an audio message by the spokesperson of IS, Abu...

the murders. The murders were described by the Moroccan general prosecutor as a terrorist act, after a video released on the Internet showed several of...

destroyed by fire in the attack. Russian authorities designated the attack as an act of terrorism. Russian media reported that five of the perpetrators...

Conference, scheduled to be held in Paris at the beginning of December, as well as reinstating border checks a week before the attacks. Throughout 2015,...

Dimashq was allocated 19 seats: Daraa Province was allocated 10 seats: As-Suwayda Governorate was allocated 6 seats: Homs Province was allocated 23 seats:...