Sectarian violence risks dividing Syria despite Sharaa's diplomacy

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa has won major diplomatic victories since seizing power nine months ago, but he risks losing the battle that matters most: to hold his deeply divided country together. In Syria's northeast, Kurdish forces are resisting integration into the state after 14 years of civil war, and are demanding a new constitution to recognise their rights. In the southeast, members of the Druze community are openly calling for independence after violent clashes with government forces. And, in Syria's northwest, a leader of the Alawite community says Sharaa's administration threatens its survival after Sunni militants affiliated to the government massacred hundreds of civilians there in March. Reuters travelled through the heartlands of Syria's Alawite, Christian and Druze minorities last...