By Olivia Le Poidevin and Suleiman Al-Khalidi

GENEVA, Dec 10 (Reuters) - Israeli Druze leader Sheikh Mowafaq Tarif ​urged the United States to guarantee the security ​of the Druze community in Syria to prevent a recurrence of intense violence earlier this year in ⁠Sweida, a Druze-majority province in Sunni-dominated Syria.

Washington needed to fulfill its "duty" to safeguard the rights of Syria's minorities in order to encourage stability, Tarif told Reuters on Tuesday during an official ​visit to the U.N. in Geneva, adding that U.S. support would also ‍remove the need for Israeli intervention in ​Syria's south.

"We hope that the United States, President Trump, and America as a great power, we want it to guarantee the rights of all minorities in Syria ... preventing any........

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