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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...
Israel Launches Airstrike on Suburbs of City of Suwayda in Southern Syria - Reports
Sputnik News
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July 18, 2025
https://sputnikglobe.com/20250718/israel-launches-airstrike-on-suburbs-of-city-of-suwayda-in-southern-syria---reports-1122454245.html Israel Launches Airstrike on Suburbs of City of Suwayda in Southern Syria - Reports Israel Launches Airstrike on...
Syrian president Ahmed al-Sharaa says Israel is trying to fracture Syria with attacks
Irish Independent
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Overnight, the Islamist-led government’s troops withdrew from the predominantly Druze city of Sweida, where scores of people have been killed in days of conflict pitting Druze fighters against government troops and Bedouin tribes. A military...
The UN sounds alarm on Syria while sectarian clashes and Israeli strikes increase
The European Times
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July 18, 2025
The governorate of Druze-Majority Sweida, long relatively isolated from the anterior phases of the 14-year-old conflict in Syria, has become a flash point. Brose an emergency meeting of the Security adviceKhiari, UN assistant secretary Khaled...
Pakistan condemns Israeli aggression in Syria as 'dangerous and deliberately destabilizing'
Dunya News
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🔊 Listen with AI Cancel Voice Updated On: Fri, 18 Jul 2025 09:54:28 PKT NEW YORK (Dunya News) - Pakistan has strongly condemned Israel’s continued military aggression against Syria, describing it as not only irresponsible, but also dangerous and...
Syria's Sharaa vows to protect Druze
The Express Tribune
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July 18, 2025
DAMASCUS: Syrian leader Ahmed al-Sharaa accused Israel of trying to fracture Syria and promised to protect its Druze minority on Thursday after US intervention to help achieve a truce in fighting between government forces and Druze fighters....
Syria’s De Facto President Ahmad al-Sharaa Flees Damascus Amid Israeli Attacks and Growing Druze-Bedouin Clashes
teleSUR
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July 18, 2025
Syrian transitional leader departs capital amid intense Israeli attacks and growing southern conflict.Photo:EFE. July 17, 2025 Hour: 10:17 pm Syria’s de facto president Ahmad al-Sharaa fled Damascus with his family amid escalating Israeli...
Syria troops quit Druze heartland after violence leaves nearly 600 dead
Goldsboro News-Argus - North Carolina
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Syrian troops on Thursday pulled out of the Druze heartland of Sweida on the orders of the Islamist-led government, following days of deadly clashes that killed nearly 600 people, according to a war monitor. The southern province has been gripped...
U.S. does not support Israel's Syria strikes as Sharaa vows to protect Druze
Japan Times
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July 18, 2025
DAMASCUS/WASHINGTON – The United States said on Thursday 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...
Syria’s Sharaa says protecting Druze citizens is ‘our priority’ amid Israeli strikes
Kashmir Reader
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July 18, 2025
DAMASCUS/CAIRO: Syria’s interim President Ahmed Al-Sharaa said on Thursday that protecting Druze citizens and their rights is “our priority,” as Israel vowed to destroy Syrian government forces attacking Druze in southern Syria. In his first...
Syria's New Leader Won Trump's Approval—He May Soon Be on Israel's Hit List
Newsweek
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July 18, 2025
Syrian Interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa may have won over U.S. President Donald Trump, but he now faces the most serious crisis of his seven-month tenure as Israel intensifies operations amid spiraling sectarian violence. Sharaa—who seized power...
Government forces withdraw from Syria’s Suwayda as ceasefire takes effect
North Press Agency
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July 17, 2025
SUWAYDA, Syria (North Press) – Field sources informed North Press on Thursday that the forces of the Syrian transitional government have completed their withdrawal from the city of Suwayda in southern Syria, coinciding with the start of a...
Controversy over presidential decrees in Syria’s transitional phase
North Press Agency
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July 17, 2025
By Norman al-Abbas DAMASCUS, Syria (North Press) – Recent presidential decrees issued by Syria’s Transitional President, Ahmad al-Sharaa, have sparked significant legal and constitutional debate, raising questions about their alignment with the...
Druze community declares Syria’s Suwayda “disaster-stricken city”
North Press Agency
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July 17, 2025
SUWAYDA, Syria (North Press) – The Spiritual leadership of the Druze community declared on Thursday that Suwayda city, southern Syria, is a “disaster-stricken city,” following days of intense clashes between forces of the Syrian transitional...
ExclusiveLebanon seeks deal to send overcrowded prison inmates to Syria
The National News
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Lebanon is seeking a treaty that would see most Syrian prisoners serve the rest of their sentence in their homeland in a bid to ease severe overcrowding in Lebanese jails. At Lebanon's largest jail of Roumieh, authorities have also reopened a...
Key players in Syria's latest violence, from the Druze and Bedouin to government forces
Channel News Asia
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July 18, 2025
THE DRUZE The Druze are Arabs who follow a religion derived from a branch of Islam. They maintain a degree of secrecy about the practice of their faith that emerged in the 11th century and incorporates elements from Islam and other philosophies,...
Syria’s Sweida sees calm after troop exit amid ceasefire, crisis, and Israeli airstrikes
Daijiworld News
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July 17, 2025
Daijiworld Media Network - Damascus Damascus, Jul 17: A tense calm returned to Syria’s southern province of Sweida on Thursday as interim government troops fully withdrew after days of violent clashes involving government forces, Druze fighters,...
Syria leader vows accountability for those who abused Druze
Bangladesh Post
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Syria's interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa vowed Thursday that those behind violence against the Druze minority would be held accountable after deadly clashes in their southern heartland, saying security responsibility would be returned to local...
Ceasefire in southern Syria achieved by force — Netanyahu
TASS
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July 17, 2025
TEL AVIV, July 17. /TASS/. A ceasefire in southern Syria was achieved by force, Syrian troops withdrew to Damascus as a result of intensive Israeli actions, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, noting that the Jewish state pursues a...
Erdogan says Syria's disintegration inadmissible, calls Israel terrorist country
TASS
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July 17, 2025
ISTANBUL, July 17. /TASS/. Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has called Israel a terrorist state, saying his country will not allow the disintegration of neighboring Syria. "Israel is a terrorist state that does not recognize law or principles,"...