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Explainer 477: What is behind the violence in Syria?

EDITORS NOTE: Graphic content / Bedouin and tribal fighters gather in the northern part of the city of Sweida in southern Syria's Druze majority province on July 19, 2025. At least 718 people have been killed in Syria's Sweida province, a war monitor said on July 19 in an updated toll for nearly a week of violence in the heartland of the Druze minority. (Photo by Bakr ALkasem / AFP) (Photo by BAKR ALKASEM/AFP via Getty Images)

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