The tribal fighters were evacuated by the Syrian southern city of Sweida and the violent clashes have ceased, according to the Syrian government. “After the intense efforts of the Ministry of the Interior to implement the agreement of the fire, following the deployment of its forces in the northern and western regions of the Sweida Governorate, the city of Sweida was evacuated by all tribal fighters and clashes in the city neighborhoods have ceased,” said the spokesman for the Ministry of the Interior, in a post-baba, in a post on a post on a post on a post on Telegram.
Rubio asks the Syrian government to contain the ‘violent jihadists’
The American secretary of state Marco Rubio asked the Syrian government to prevent the arrival of “violent jihadists” in the south of the country, the scene of bloody clashes between community last week. The Syrian authorities must use “their security forces to prevent the Islamic State and other violent jihadists from entering the region and committing massacres”, wrote Rubio on X. ISIS has taken control of vast areas of the Syrian and Iraqi territory at the beginning of the civil war, which broke out in 2011, proclaiming the creation of a transfrontier “caliphate” in 2014. Supported by the United States, they defeated him in 2019, but the jihadists maintained a presence, particularly in the vast Syrian desert.
Intesa Syria-Israel for the ceasefire, ‘a thousand dead’
After a week of clashes and a budget that according to an NGO touches the thousand deaths, Israel and Syria have agreed a ceased for fire. Damascus began to deploy his troops in the southern province of Sweida, the scene of the clashes with the Druse supported by the Jewish state, and the Syrian president Ahmed Al-Sharaa reiterated his government’s commitment to protect all the communities. But Israel, who has not confirmed the agreement, replied that today in Syria it is very dangerous to belong to a minority. The American ambassador to Türkiye, Tom Barrack was given the announcement of the ceased. Israel and Syria, he said, have “agreed for a ceased, signed by Turkey, Jordan and neighboring countries. We invite Drusi, Bedouin and Sunni to lay down weapons and, together with other minorities, to build a new and united Syrian identity, in peace and prosperity with its neighbors”. A few hours later, the president Al-Sharaa, a Sunni fundamentalist already a member of ISIS and Al Qaida, now on more moderate positions and supported by Turkey, has announced a ceased “immediate” fire in the province of Sweida, in the south of the country. It is the Drusa majority area where the Sunnite militias related to the government have clashed hard with the local ones in the last week. Drusion fear that they are persecuted by the Sunnis now in power, as is happening to the Alawites of the former dictator Bashar al Assad. For this reason they resisted the forces of Damascus who tried to take control of the province. The overall balance of inter -municipal clashes in southern Syria has reached 940 died since last Sunday, according to the Syrian Observatory for human rights. Among the victims, writes the NGO, there are many civilians, “summarily executed by staff of the defense and interior ministries”. Israel has been included in the clash, which has always had a privileged relationship with the Drusa community in anti-Arabic function. The Jewish state hammered the government forces in Sweida, and came to bomb the centers of military power in Damascus. Israel’s goal is to expand the controlled territory in the Golan and southern Syria. The ceased the fire, mediated by Türkiye and Jordan, with the approval of the USA, allowed the government security forces to take sides in the province of Sweida.