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Syria's Druze find bodies in the streets while searching for loved ones after clashes
ABC News - New York
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July 18, 2025
JARAMANA, Syria -- A Syrian Druze woman living in the United Arab Emirates frantically tried to keep in touch with her family in her hometown in southern Syria as clashes raged there over the past days. Her mother, father and sister sent videos of...
Syria clashes leave trail of death and despair as Druze return to looted homes, search for missing
Daijiworld News
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Daijiworld Media Network – Syria Syria, Jul 18: Days after intense fighting rocked the Druze-majority province of Sweida in southern Syria, a fragile ceasefire has brought a brief calm. However, for families returning to their neighborhoods, the...
Syria's Druze find bodies in streets while searching for loved ones after days of clashes
Japan Today
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July 18, 2025
A Syrian Druze woman living in the United Arab Emirates frantically tried to keep in touch with her family in her hometown in southern Syria as clashes raged there over the past days. Her mother, father and sister sent videos of their neighbors...
Syria pulls back from Druze heartland as bloodbath kills hundreds
Sabah
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July 18, 2025
The Syrian government has withdrawn its military forces from the southern governorate of Suwayda following days of deadly sectarian clashes and Israeli airstrikes, a move Damascus says is aimed at preventing further escalation amid U.S. and...
Syria – Situation in Suweida Province (17.07.25)
France Diplomacy
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July 18, 2025
France expresses its deep concern over the continued atrocities in Suweida Province, despite yesterday evening’s withdrawal agreement. It calls on all those involved to comply strictly with the ceasefire, guarantee the safety of civilians and...
Syria's Druze find bodies in the streets while searching for...
Southeast Missourian
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It showed gunmen in military uniform forcing a number of men in civilian clothes to kneel in the street in a well-known roundabout in Sweida. The gunmen then spray the men with automatic fire, their bodies dropping to the ground. The footage was...
Syria troops quit Druze region
The Daily Tribune - News Of Bahrain
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AFP | Damascus Email : editor@newsofbahrain.com Syrian troops pulled out of the Druze heartland province of Sweida yesterday on orders from the government, leaving bodies strewn on the street, journalists reported from the provincial capital. The...
Syria's Druze find bodies in the streets while searching for loved ones after days of...
Dayton Daily News - Ohio
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“Now I only pray. That’s all I can do," she told The Associated Press at the time. Hours later, they learned he had been shot and killed by a sniper. The woman spoke on condition of anonymity fearing that using her name would put her surviving...
Syria's Druze find bodies in the streets while searching for loved ones after days of clashes
KSAT - Texas
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July 18, 2025
JARAMANA – A Syrian Druze woman living in the United Arab Emirates frantically tried to keep in touch with her family in her hometown in southern Syria as clashes raged there over the past days. Her mother, father and sister sent videos of their...
Türkiye says Israeli aggression ‘directly undermines Syria's rebuilding efforts'
Hurriyet Daily News
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ANKARA The Syrian Defense Ministry building sits heavily damaged after alleged Israeli airstrikes in Damascus, Syria, Wednesday, July 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed) Türkiye's U.N. envoy strongly condemned Israel's continued military attacks...
world US does not support Israel's Syria strikes, Sharaa vows to protect Druze
Asiaone
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July 18, 2025
DAMASCUS/WASHINGTON - The US said on Thursday (July 17) it did not support recent Israeli strikes on Syria and had made clear its displeasure, while Syrian leader Ahmed al-Sharaa accused Israel of trying to fracture his country and promised to...
Israel warns Syria of ‘painful blows’ in Sweida
Israel Today
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July 17, 2025
(JNS) On Wednesday Israel has launched an air campaign against the new Syrian regime’s forces, striking in southern Syria and in the capital Damascus to enforce a demilitarized buffer zone on its border and to prevent a potential massacre of the...
Ceasefire declared in Syria’s Sweida after Israeli strikes !
Sanatan Prabhat
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July 18, 2025
Israeli intervention cripples Syrian forces ! Jerusalem (Israel) – For the past four days, violent clashes were ongoing between the Shia Druze and Sunni Bedouin communities in Sweida, a city in southern Syria. When the Syrian Army backed the...
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Israel strikes Sweida city in Syria amid tribal clashes, first raid after Al-Sharaa's forces withdrawal
Firstpost
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July 18, 2025
As tensions between Syria’s Druze and Bedouin fighters escalate, Israel conducted its first airstrike in the Syrian city of Sweida after the withdrawal of Syrian government forces from the province read more As the tensions in West Asia continue...
Is Israel exploiting distrust between Syria’s Druze and Damascus?
The National News
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The city of Sweida in southern Syria became a battleground this week after violence between Druze militiamen and Bedouin tribes escalated. President Ahmad Al Shara's government sent security forces to the area, ostensibly to restore order. What...
US Breaks Silence, “Opposed Israeli Strikes” in Syria, Trump “Not Happy” With Netanyahu
News18
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July 18, 2025
The US opposed Israel’s recent strikes in Syria, despite helping broker a peace deal. State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce confirmed, “The United States did not support recent Israeli strikes.” She also noted President Trump spoke with Prime...
UN Human Rights Watchdog Confirms Executions, Kidnappings, Other Violations in Southern Syria
Sputnik News
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July 18, 2025
https://sputnikglobe.com/20250718/un-human-rights-watchdog-confirms-executions-kidnappings-other-violations-in-southern-syria-1122454865.html UN Human Rights Watchdog Confirms Executions, Kidnappings, Other Violations in Southern Syria UN Human...
'We fear we're next': Druze in Damascus lock doors after fighting in Syria's south
The National News
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In Jaramana, the largest Druze-majority district of Damascus, fear has taken root. Shops once buzzing with late-night customers now close before sundown. Streets grow silent after dark. Behind closed doors, families speak in hushed tones, watching...
Death toll rises in clashes in Sweida, Syria
Yemen News Agency SABA
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July 18, 2025
[Fri, 18 Jul 2025 08:42:57 +0300] Damascus - Saba: The death toll from clashes in the Syrian province of Sweida since Sunday morning, July 13, as a result of clashes, field executions, and Israeli shelling, has reached 597. The Syrian Observatory...
Why Is Israel Bombing Syria? Israeli Dy Chief Of Mission Explains Demography, History Of Israel-Syria Conflict
MENAFN
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July 18, 2025
(MENAFN- AsiaNet News) The Deputy Chief of Mission of Israel in India, Fares Saeb in a video message explained the history of Druze people, as the Israeli government is asserting to protect them in Syria. Saeb claimed that the Druze people are...