Tribes played a key role in military operations against the SDF, and their loyalty could prove vital to the future of statebuilding in Syria ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Palestinians shop at a market ahead of the Eid al-Adha festival, in the West Bank city of Hebron, on June 5, 2025. (photo credit: ...

BEIRUT, Aug 31 (Reuters) - The U.S.-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group called on Thursday for an end to clashes in northeast Syria, where the Kurdish-led force it backs has been locked in ...

Clashes between Druze militias and Sunni Arab tribes have continued and grown after Syrian Army forces withdrew from the predominantly Druze governorate of Suwayda on July 16.

ON THE CHAD-SUDAN BORDER, Dec 28 (Reuters) - Survivors have identified six Arab paramilitary commanders and militia leaders who they say played a key role in directing the ethnically targeted violence ...

Arab-led RSF forces have pressed ahead this month with their expulsion of Sudan's ethnic-African Masalit tribe from West Darfur. Survivors described large-scale killings of Masalit captives at a ...

A member of the Syrian Democratic Forces and US soldiers are pictured on the outskirts of Rumaylan in Syria's northeastern Hasakeh province, bordering Turkey, on March 27, 2023 — Delil souleiman Days ...

“Chébé is a gift left up in the mountain by God so it can bring down our hair to great lengths,” says Néné Izou, a member of the Bassara Arab tribe of Northern Chad. The female members of Izou’s tribe ...

In 2003 a militia drawn from ethnic Arab tribes in Darfur known as the Janjaweed partnered with the government of Sudan in a genocidal campaign against non-Arab tribes in the region. An estimated ...

NEARLY thirty years ago Robertson Smith lamented that no good collection of wasm (the tribal marks with which every Arab tribe brands its cattle) had been made, and now Mr. MacMichael has published as ...