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.

Syrian authorities evacuated Bedouin families from the Druze-majority city of Sweida on Monday, after a ceasefire in the southern province halted a week of sectarian bloodshed that a monitor said killed more than 1,