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Syria’s armed Bedouins say they’ve withdrawn from Druze-majority metropolis
The Tycoon Herald > World > Syria’s armed Bedouins say they’ve withdrawn from Druze-majority metropolis
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Syria’s armed Bedouins say they’ve withdrawn from Druze-majority metropolis

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By Tycoon Herald 7 Min Read Published July 21, 2025
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Syrian authorities safety forces block Bedouin fighters, background, from coming into Sweida province, in Busra al-Harir village, southern Syria on Sunday.

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MAZRAA, Syria — Syria’s armed Bedouin clans introduced Sunday that they had withdrawn from the Druze-majority metropolis of Sweida following weeklong clashes and a U.S.-brokered ceasefire, as humanitarian support convoys began to enter the battered southern metropolis.

Palestinians react after carrying the bodies of those killed while trying to reach aid trucks entering northern Gaza through the Zikim crossing with Israel, at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, Sunday.

The clashes between militias of the Druze non secular minority and the Sunni Muslim clans killed tons of and threatened to unravel Syria’s already fragile postwar transition. Israel additionally launched dozens of airstrikes within the Druze-majority Sweida province, focusing on authorities forces who had successfully sided with the Bedouins.

The clashes additionally led to a sequence of focused sectarian assaults towards the Druze neighborhood, adopted by revenge assaults towards the Bedouins.

A sequence of tit-for-tat kidnappings sparked the clashes in varied cities and villages within the province, which later unfold to Sweida metropolis, the provincial capital. Authorities forces had been redeployed to halt renewed combating that erupted Thursday, earlier than withdrawing once more.

Interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa, who has been perceived as extra sympathetic to the Bedouins, had tried to attraction to the Druze neighborhood whereas remaining essential of the militias. He later urged the Bedouins to depart the town, saying that they “cannot replace the role of the state in handling the country’s affairs and restoring security.”

“We thank the Bedouins for their heroic stances but demand they fully commit to the ceasefire and comply with the state’s orders,” he stated in an handle broadcast Saturday.

Dozens of armed Bedouin fighters alongside different clans from across the nation who got here to assist them remained on the outskirts of the town and had been cordoned off by authorities safety forces and navy police. They blame the clashes on the Druze factions loyal to religious chief Sheikh Hikmat al-Hijri and accuse them of harming Bedouin households.

“We will not leave until he turns himself in alongside those with him who tried to stir sedition. And only then will we go home.” Khaled al-Mohammad, who got here to the southern province alongside different tribesman from the japanese Deir al-Zour province, informed The Related Press.

Support convoys enter Sweida however tensions persist

The Bedouins’ withdrawal introduced a cautious calm to the world, with humanitarian convoys on their approach. The Syrian Pink Crescent stated Sunday it despatched 32 vans loaded with meals, drugs, water, gasoline and different support, after the combating left the province with energy cuts and shortages.

Syria’s state information company SANA reported that the convoy entered Sweida on Sunday, however accused al-Hijri and his armed Druze supporters of turning again a authorities delegation that accompanied one other convoy.

The Overseas Ministry in an announcement stated the convoy accompanying the delegation had two ambulances loaded with support offered by native and worldwide organizations.

Israeli soldiers stand guard as Syrian Druze people cross back into Syria at the Israeli-Syrian border, in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights town of Majdal Shams, on Thursday.

Al-Hijri didn’t instantly reply to the accusations however stated in an announcement that he welcomes any help for Sweida and slammed what he claims had been distorted campaigns towards him.

“We reaffirm that we have no dispute with anyone on any religious or ethnic basis,” the assertion learn. “Shame and disgrace be upon all those who seek to sow discord and hatred in the minds of young people.”

The U.N. Worldwide Group for Migration stated 128,571 folks had been displaced in the course of the clashes, together with 43,000 on Saturday alone.

U.S. envoy appeals for an finish to combating

Washington’s particular envoy to Syria, Tom Barrack, stated the clashes and atrocities “overshadowed” an preliminary cautious optimism in regards to the nation’s post-war transition and the worldwide neighborhood’s lifting of sanctions.

“All factions must immediately lay down their arms, cease hostilities and abandon cycles of tribal vengeance,” Barrack stated on X. “Syria stands at a critical juncture — peace and dialogue must prevail — and prevail now.”

Amongst these killed within the weeklong combating had been dozens of Druze civilians slain in a sequence of focused assaults within the metropolis by the hands of Bedouin fighters and authorities forces. Movies surfaced on-line of fighters destroying portraits of Druze non secular officers and notables in properties, and shaving the mustaches of aged Druze, seen as an insult to tradition and custom. Druze militias in return attacked Bedouin-majority areas within the outskirts of the province, forcing households to flee to neighboring Daraa province.

Greater than half of the roughly 1 million Druze worldwide stay in Syria. A lot of the different Druze stay in Lebanon and Israel, together with within the Golan Heights, which Israel captured from Syria within the 1967 Mideast Conflict and annexed in 1981.

Palestinian Christians wait to pray at the midnight Christmas Eve Mass out side the Deir Al Latin Holy Family Catholic Church in Gaza City, 2021.

Syria’s Druze largely celebrated the downfall of the Assad household that ended many years of tyrannical rule. Whereas that they had considerations about Al-Sharaa’s de facto Islamist rule, a big quantity wished to method issues diplomatically. Al-Hijri and his supporters, although, have taken a extra confrontational method with Al-Sharaa, opposite to most different influential Druze figures. Critics additionally word al-Hijri’s earlier allegiance to Assad.

Nevertheless, the current clashes and sectarian assaults on the minority neighborhood have made a rising variety of Druze within the space extra skeptical about Damascus’ new management and extra uncertain of peaceable coexistence.

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