PHOTO COLLECTION: Syria Clashes

This is a photo collection curated by AP photo editors.

Syria’s security forces gather, after reaching a deal with Druze gunmen to deploy around Jaramana, a Damascus suburb that saw fighting earlier this week, in Damascus, Syria, early Friday, May 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki)
Syria’s security forces stand on their vehicle, after reaching a deal with Druze gunmen to deploy around Jaramana, a Damascus suburb that saw fighting earlier this week, in Damascus, Syria, early Friday, May 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki)
A Druze gunman, left, speaks with Syrian security forces who reached a deal with Druze gunmen to deploy around the southern Damascus suburb of Jaramana that has witnessed fighting earlier this week in Damascus, Syria, early Friday, May 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki)
People clean a shop that was damaged after clashes erupted between members of the minority Druze sect and pro-government fighters, i in the town of Sahnaya, south of Damascus, Syria, Thursday, May 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki)
Members of Syria’s security forces deploy in the town of Sahnaya, south of Damascus, on Wednesday, April 30, 2025, after earlier clashes with Druze fighters left at least 11 people dead. (AP Photo/Omar Albam)
Members of Syria’s security forces deploy in the town of Sahnaya, south of Damascus, on Wednesday, April 30, 2025, after earlier clashes with Druze fighters left at least 11 people dead. (AP Photo/Omar Albam)
A man checks a charred car that was burnt after clashes erupted between members of the minority Druze sect and pro-government fighters, in the town of Sahnaya, south of Damascus, Syria, Thursday, May 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki)
People remove shattered glass from a shop that was damaged after clashes erupted between members of the minority Druze sect and pro-government fighters, in the town of Sahnaya, south of Damascus, Syria, Thursday, May 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)
EDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT – Syrian boys take pictures with their mobile phones of the bodies of former Shanaya’s town mayor Houssam Warawar and his son Haidar, who were killed in the town of Sahnaya, south of Damascus, Syria, Thursday, May 1, 2025, a day after clashes erupted between members of the minority Druze sect and pro-government fighters. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)
Members of Syria’s security forces deploy during an operation in the edge of the town of Sahnaya, south of Damascus, Wednesday April 30, 2025. Clashes earlier in the area left at least 11 people dead a day after heavy exchange of fire between pro-government gunmen and Druze fighters in the Damascus suburb of Jaramana left 10 people dead.(AP Photo/Omar Albam)
Druze gunmen stand guard near a checkpoint, a day after clashes between members of the minority Druze sect and pro-government fighters left at least four people dead in the southern suburb of Jaramana, Damascus, Syria, Tuesday, April 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki)
Druze boys hold their sect religious flags stand next to Druze gunmen, a day after clashes between members of the minority Druze sect and pro-government fighters left at least four people dead in the southern suburb of Jaramana, Damascus, Syria, Tuesday, April 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki)
A fighter of Syria’s security forces is deployed at a highway where they found the bodies of Syrian Druze fighters who were in a convoy heading from the southern Sweida province towards the capital, at al-Sor al-Kobra village near the Sweida town, southern Syria, Thursday, May 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Omar Albam)
Syria’s security forces check their mobile phones at a checkpoint, after reaching a deal with Druze gunmen to deploy around Jaramana, a Damascus suburb that saw fighting earlier this week, in Damascus, Syria, early Friday, May 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki)
A Druze man, center, stands next to Syrian security forces who reached a deal with Druze gunmen to deploy around the southern Damascus suburb of Jaramana that has witnessed fighting earlier this week in Damascus, Syria, early Friday, May 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki)

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