Syrian security forces deploy in Walga town amid clashes between tribal and bedouin fighters on one side, and Druze gunmen on the other, near the predominantly Druze city of Sweida in southern Syria on July 19, 2025. (Photo: AFP)
Turkey's Minister of Energy, Alparslan Bayraktar (2R), Azerbaijan's Minister of the Economy, Mikayil Jabbarov (R), Syrian energy minister, Mohammed al-Bashir (2L), and DG of QFFD, Fahad Hamad Hassan Al- Sulait (L), in Turkey, August 2, 2025. (Photo: AFP)
In this courtroom sketch, defendants from left, Mohamed Abrini, Osama Krayem, Salah Abdeslam and Sofiane Ayari look out from a specially designed glass box during the trial for the Brussels attacks, Dec. 5, 2022. (Photo: AP)
Syrian flag (R), Israeli flag (L), and in the background a Syrian carries a placard during protest of the humanitarian situation in the predominantly Druze city of Suwayda on Jul. 28, 2025. (Graphic: Designed by Kurdistan24)
Members of the Druze community in the Israel-annexed Golan Heights gather for a rally in solidarity with the Druze community in Syria in the village of Majdal Shams in the Golan on July 19, 2025. (Photo: AFP)