A fragile calm has settled over Sweida, Southern Syria, after a week of intense sectarian violence that claimed over 1,100 lives. A ceasefire, brokere

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

Syrian government forces had largely pulled out of the Druze-majority southern province of Sweida after days of clashes with militias linked to the Druze religious minority that threatened to unravel the country’s fragile post-war transition.