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Posted on 07/19/2025 9:00:20 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Sectarian clashes escalated in Syria's predominantly Druze region of Sweida on Saturday, with machinegun fire and mortar shelling ringing out after days of bloodshed as the Islamist-led government struggled to implement a ceasefire.
Reuters reporters heard gunfire from inside the city of Sweida and saw shells land in nearby villages. There were no immediate, confirmed reports of casualties.
The government had said security forces were deploying in the southern region to try to keep peace, and urged all parties to stop fighting after nearly a week of factional bloodshed in which hundreds have been killed.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a British-based monitoring group, said clashes since last week around Sweida had killed at least 940 people. Reuters could not independently verify the toll.
Interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa said "Arab and American" mediation had helped restore calm, before the clashes escalated. He criticised Israel for airstrikes during the week.
VIOLENCE IN DRUZE REGION CHALLENGES DAMASCUS
The fighting is the latest challenge to the control of Sharaa's Islamist-dominated government, which took over after rebels toppled autocratic president Bashar al-Assad in December.
It started last week as clashes between the Druze - a religious minority native to southern Syria, the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights and parts of Lebanon and Jordan - and Syrian Bedouin tribes.
Government forces then arrived to try to quell tensions, clashing with Druze gunmen and attacking the Druze community.
Saturday's violence once again pitted Druze against Bedouin, witnesses said.
The fighting has drawn in neighbouring Israel, which carried out airstrikes in southern Syria and on the Defence Ministry in Damascus this week while government forces were fighting with the Druze. Israel says it is protecting the Druze, who also form a significant minority in Israel.
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“The fighting is the latest challenge to the control of Sharaa’s Islamist-dominated government, which took over after rebels toppled autocratic president Bashar al-Assad in December.”.
Total BS.
The fight is against a terrorist Al-Qaida leader who is trying to do ethnic cleansing AGAIN.
The US has had a $10 million bounty for the death of Syria’s leader Ahmed al-Sharaa.
Under al-Shara’a’s leadership, al-Nusra Front and Jabhat Fateh al-Sham perpetrated a series of war crimes, suicide bombings, forced conversions, ethnic cleansing and sectarian massacres against Syria’s Christian, Alawite, Shia and Druze minorities.
These included the January 2012 al-Midan bombing, which killed 26 people and wounded 63.
In 2015, al-Nusra fighters killed Druze villagers during the Qalb Loze massacre. The Saudi state-owned Al Arabiya news network claimed that al-Nusra’s leadership denounced the attack, asserting that the actions of the attackers were in contradiction to the organization’s policy.
Al-Nusra was also suspected of carrying out the 10 May 2012 Damascus bombings killing 55 people and injuring over 400, and the February 2013 Damascus bombings which killed 83 people, most of them civilians and children, and were condemned by the Syrian opposition.
In June 2013 al-Nusra claimed the “storming and cleansing of Hatla” during which 30 to 60 Shia civilians were killed as part of a wider campaign of sectarian cleansing in the Deir ez-Zor Governorate.
On 12 May 2016, rebels led by al-Nusra Front massacred 42 civilians and seven NDF militiamen while kidnapping up to 70 people after taking control of the Alawite village of Zara’a in Southern Hama.
Al-Nusra was also behind suicide bombings in Lebanon directed against Alawites and Shia populations, including the 2015 Tripoli, Lebanon bombings (for which the group claimed responsibility) and was suspected of carrying out the July 2013 Beirut bombing and the 2013 Iranian embassy bombing in Beirut.
This is a continuation of his pattern of continued ethnic cleansing.
Countries and organisations below have listed al-Nusra Front as a terrorist organisation:
Country
Iran: 3 January 2012
United States: 10 December 2012
United Nations United Nations Security Council: May 2013
France: 30 May 2013
Australia: 28 June 2013
United Kingdom: 19 July 2013
Canada: 7 November 2013
Malaysia: 2013
Saudi Arabia: 7 March 2014
New Zealand: 14 May 2014
Turkey: 2 June 2014
Russia: 29 December 2014
Japan:
Bahrain:
Kazakhstan:
Tajikistan:
Ba’athist Syria:
Kuwait:
Lebanon:
Iraq:
Recently from Syria:
https://greekcitytimes.com/2025/07/16/l-julani-forces-burn-greek-orthodox-church-syria/
And also:
The Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Bosra and Hauran in Syria is urging the international community to intervene immediately to stop the bloodshed in As Suwayda.
Islam must be eradicated from the face of the earth and every last trace of it’s teachings destroyed.
From Amir Tsarfati’s Telegram account:
https://t.me/beholdisraelchannel/60031
“Horrific reality: Bedouin militias force an entire Druze family to jump from their home balcony to their death.”
From your link:
“The destruction of the Christian holy site has drawn condemnation from community leaders, who see it as a direct attack on religious coexistence in the region.”
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There is no chance for peaceful co-existence with islam.
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