SWEIDA, Syria, July 21 (Xinhua) -- The silence of dawn felt like a held breath on July 14. Outside my apartment window, the streets of southern Syria's Sweida lay taut with tension -- Druze fighters ...

Fierce fighting erupted in the towns of Areeqa and Umm al-Zeitoun along the Damascus-Sweida highway, during which tribal gunmen reportedly burned homes and looted properties. The violence led to the ...