Posted on 07/20/2025 3:05:04 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Bedouin fighters positioned outside the southern Syrian city of Suweida have told the BBC they will observe a ceasefire with the Druze community there, but have not ruled out resuming hostilities.
The Bedouin fighters have retreated from the city to surrounding villages in the province after a week of deadly sectarian clashes between Druze fighters, Bedouins and government forces, with Israel carrying out air strikes in support of the Druze.
On Sunday a UK-based monitoring group said there was a "cautious calm" in the region - but later said tribal fighters had attacked villages.
From the town of al-Mazara'a - a Druze town until last week when it was taken over by the Bedouin and now under Syrian government control - smoke could be seen across the fields rising from Suweida city.
At a nearby checkpoint a mound of dirt cut across the road. Dozens of government security personnel were standing along it, all heavily armed and blocking the Bedouin from re-entering the city.
Hundreds of Bedouin fighters, many firing guns into the air, crowded the road.
They want the release of injured Bedouin people still in the city of Suweida, who they refer to as hostages. Otherwise, they say, they will force their way past the checkpoint and head back into the city.
"We did what the government have ordered us and we are committed to the agreement, and the government words and we came back, Suweida is 35km far from here," a tribal elder told the BBC.
"Currently our hostages and wounded are there, they are refusing to give us anyone... If they don't commit to the agreement we are going to enter again, even if Suweida will become our cemetery."
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BBC = Biased Bull Crap
Not our problem.
Bedouins = “Palestinians”
They can bring out the electric kettle drum.
Roi Kais / Omar Shahar Kan news:
A video of a captive from one of the Syrian army units, held by Druze forces in As-Suwayda, says in the video that they received orders from their commanders to pose as “Bedouin tribes” in order to reach As-Suwayda and massacre Druze, killing everyone including children and women. The captive also says that they plan to then “continue to Tel Aviv to liberate Jerusalem from the hands of the entity.”
https://rotter.net/forum/scoops1/909095.shtml
Aren’t Bedouins Saudi nomads? Send them back. Gypsy trash.
Good thing we made taking Assad out a top priority in 2011....
You’d think that several thousand years of pointless mutual murder would get tiring. But apparently not.
The hubris of the West is endemic and unstoppable. Even the romans couldn’t bring stop the fighting and they actually crucified people. Yet constantly western govts stick their noses into these bloody feuds and get exactly what an intelligent person would expect. Then they act surprised that generational murderers keep murdering.
At all.
Exactly... They’re all squatters... They typically move about like gypsies from place to place, but every now and then Bedouin squatter’s do what Bedouin squatters do best.. They squat.
They squat in Israel, Syria, Lebanon, Jordon... The Egyptian’s kicked most of them out to GAZA and Jordon is trying their best to kick them out to the West Bank... At the end of the day... Bedouins = Palestinians = Gypsies = Roma and nobody wants anything to do with them.
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