Adding to the difficulties in southern Syria’s Suwayda Governorate, Israel has carried out airstrikes against Syrian tanks in the village of Samee, claiming they had entered the “restricted zone” which they are forbidden from. The village is in the northwestern part...
Fighting between the Druze population in Syria’s Suwayda Governorate and local Bedouin tribes continues to escalate after breaking out Sunday in the Suwayda neighborhood of Maqus. The most recent figures suggest at least 89 people have been killed in the fighting as...
Adding to the seemingly endless array of different ethnic, sectarian and other general clashes in Syria, fighting erupted in the southern city of Suwayda today, leaving at least 21 people dead, including a child, and over 40 others wounded, as many as 50 by some...
Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s recent warning that Syria may be on the verge of another “full scale civil war” seems increasingly more possible, with sectarian tensions erupting on multiple fronts, as the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) government’s promise of...
Israel continued to carry out strikes against Syria throughout the weekend, launching a number of additional airstrikes centered on the idea they are “protecting” the Druze minority in Syria after last week’s sectarian violence left over 100 people dead. The violence...
Clashes in the Damascus suburb of Jaramana earlier this week centered on Syria’s Druze minority, but like a lot of the sectarian tensions in the country seems to have grown substantially from there, with reports now putting the overall death toll in the anti-Druze...
Sectarian fighting in the Damascus suburb of Jaramana left at least 18 dead yesterday, and Israel is already looking to parlay that into a new excuse for military action against the Syrian government, with the idea that they need to “protect” the Druze minority...
Violent sectarian gunbattles have erupted in the Damascus suburb of Jaramana, when Sunni gunmen from the nearby Maliha suburb attacked Druze groups in the area. At least 18 people have been confirmed killed, including seven Druze fighters. Two security force members...
The Syrian Druze population has been something of a wildcard in the future of southern Syria. The Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) government in Damascus has promised unity, while Israel appeared, at least at first, to be trying to court them as allies. Where...
When Israel invaded Syria in December, it announced the intention to remain at Mount Hermon, along the UN Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) region on the Syrian side of the border, through 2025. That appears to have been just the start, as Israel has taken more...
