Tag Archives: Druze

from the News Desk at The Cradle, August 4, 2025 At least 254 people have been murdered in Syria since the beginning of the year, including many on sectarian grounds The above seems like a ridiculous undercount, but I suppose they are not counting the massacres of Druze and Alawites …

from the News Desk at the Cradle, August 1, 2025 As diplomatic negotiations seek to determine the future of southern Syria, Israeli military operations are intensifying around Suwayda and the outskirts of Damascus. A new round of talks, reportedly set to take place in Azerbaijan’s capital, Baku, between Syria’s Foreign …

Below is a report by Ismaeel Abdur-Rasheed from his Facebook Page.  The references in the Arabic press are gone, i.e., the pages are no longer available online.  More on this in a later post.  Al Mayadeen has removed the articles, and Syrian News outlets have gone dark. Sweida is strewn with …

by al Hawar (ANHA), July 18, 2025 The transitional government presidency in Syria has thwarted a truce agreement aimed at ending the bloody tensions between the people of Suwayda and the tribes in the south, despite extensive mediation efforts involving dignitaries from Daraa and religious leaders from Suwayda. The Presidential …

by al Hawar News Agency (ANHA), July 16, 2025 Fighting reignited in Sweida city, southern Syria, on Tuesday, just hours after a ceasefire was announced. Eyewitnesses reported that local armed factions launched a counterattack inside the city, regaining strategic positions around the National Hospital, the central market, and Tishreen Square, …

from the News Desk at The Cradle, July 16, 2025 The Israeli air force carried out an attack on the entrance to the Syrian General Staff Headquarters in the capital Israel renewed its attacks on Syria on 16 July as fierce clashes between government forces and Druze militant factions in …

Reporting by Yamam Al Shaar and Firas Makdesi, writing by Maya Gebeily editing by Gareth Jones, produced by Reuters, May 6, 2025 Editor’s note: Coverage by the Mainstream News is significantly improved over that during the war and the last years of the Republic governed by Bashar Assad. [jb] JARAMANA, …

by Steven Sahiounie, published on Mideast Discourse, May 4, 2025 More grandstanding by the evil one/  Seems like they actually bombed the grounds of the Presidential Palace.  Seems likely that a-Jolani/al-Sharaa wasn’t present at the time; likely in Europe getting money to govern. [jb] Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has occupied …

Kevork Almassian on Syriana Analysis, April 29, 2025: