Behind Syria’s Deadly Sectarian Clashes: A Failed Postwar Order Threatening Regional Stability

As Syria teeters on the edge of renewed sectarian violence, the latest deadly clashes between Druze factions, Bedouin tribes, and government forces reveal a catastrophic failure of the fragile postwar order. Decades of dictatorship and 14 years of brutal civil war have left a fractured country where tribal loyalties and extremist agendas now threaten to plunge the region back into chaos. Why These Clashes Signal More Than Just Local Violence The Druze minority—once protected under Bashar al-Assad’s authoritarian but secular regime—is caught between mistrust of Islamist-dominated new authorities and escalating tribal rivalries. The recent spark: Bedouin tribes’ attack and robbery...