Clad in black in a modest apartment in central Beirut, Rima weeps for the relatives she lost in the recent wave of violence that engulfed Sweida, the Druze heartland in southern Syria. A Syrian Druze married to a Lebanese Druze,

Members of the Syrian American community in Portland are grieving the loss of loved ones following attacks in southern Syria.

Renewed violence in Syria between Druze militias and Bedouin tribes is threatening to deepen divisions in a country recuperating from a civil war.