Kurdish autonomy ends; Druze remain Syria's holdout against central rule

Over 1,700 people died in July 2025 clashes between Druze, Bedouin locals, and Syrian government forces in Sweida province.

In the long aftermath of Syria's civil war, the Kurdish minority has surrendered its fourteen-year experiment in self-governance, folding back into the central authority in Damascus and leaving the Druze of Sweida province as the last community standing apart from a reconstituting Syrian state. The collapse of the Kurdish autonomous zone has undone a shared vision of a decentralized Syria, isolating the Druze at a moment when the memory of over 1,700 deaths in 2025 clashes still poisons any prospect of reconciliation. What unfolds next in Sweida may say less about the Druze themselves than abo

Kurdish autonomy ends; Druze remain Syria's holdout against central rule

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