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Syria’s Sharaa renews pledge to ‘protect all minorities’
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Syria's interim president Ahmed al-Sharaa receives Saudi Arabia's foreign minister in Damascus, Syria, on May 31, 2025. (SANA / AFP)
Syria’s interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa renews his pledge to protect minorities, after sectarian clashes left more than 700 people dead in the Druze-majority province of Sweida.
“The Syrian state is committed to protecting all minorities and communities in the country… We condemn all crimes committed” in Sweida, Sharaa says in a televised speech, shortly after his office announced an “immediate ceasefire” in the southern province.
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