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2025-07-20 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
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Clashes end in Suwayda after govt forces deployment, 940 dead
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[GEO.TV] Clashes within the southern city of Suwayda have come to a halt, Al Jazeera reported, citing a statement from Noureddine al-Baba, spokesman for the Interior Ministry in Syria.
The announcement, shared by Syria's official SANA news agency, comes after the government deployed forces in the Suwayda governorate to try to quell days of sectarian violence.
SOHR: Death toll from Al-Suwayda violence rises to 940
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights (SOHR) reported renewed festivities in the western neighbourhoods of al-Suwayda city between rustics and local button men from the Druze community following the breach of the international-sponsored ceasefire agreement which was reached today.
The recent escalation came at a time when groups of general security forces started to arrive in positions nearby al-Suwaidaa city as a part of the implementation of the terms of international-sponsored agreement designed to put an end to the current escalation and control the situation on frontline.
Meanwhile,
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the number of fatalities in armed festivities, exchange of bombardment, extrajudicial executions and Israeli Arclight airstrike
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s in different Syrian provinces since the beginning of military and security escalation in al-Suwayda province on Sunday morning, July 13, has increased to 940.
The fatalities are distributed as follows:
406 people from al-Suwayda, including 80 civilians, among them were four children and four women.
312 members of the Syrian Ministry of Defence and general security forces.
18 Bedouin rustics from al-Suwayda.
15 members of the ministries of defence and interior were killed in Israeli airstrikes.
Three persons, including a woman and two unidentified persons, were killed in Israeli airstrikes which targeted the headquarters of the Ministry of Defence in Damascus city.
A media activist was killed in festivities in al-Suwayda.
182 people, including 26 women, six children and an elderly man, were extrajudicially executed by members of the Syrian ministries of defence and interior.
Three civilians from Bedouin tribes, including a woman and a child, were extrajudicially executed by button men of the Druze sect.
Fighting has intensified in al-Suwayda province, southern Syria, as Druze factions clash with Sunni Moslem Bedouins. Reports indicate significant civilian casualties and atrocities
After initially withdrawing and leaving local forces to oversee the situation, Syrian government troops redeployed on Saturday in an effort to curb the violence.
The Syrian Presidency subsequently declared a 'comprehensive and immediate' ceasefire across the province, urging all parties to comply.
Israel preparing to send medical gear to Sweida as clashes persist despite ceasefire
[IsraelTimes] Syrian war monitor says fighting across province ongoing, although Druze fighters regained control of provincial capital after booting out rival armed factions
Israel is preparing to send medical equipment and medicine to a hospital in the Druze-majority city of Sweida, in southern Syria, after days of violence left an estimated 900 people dead and the medical facility badly damaged, the Health Ministry announced on Saturday.
The announcement came even as fighting persisted across Sweida province since last Sunday, despite the latest attempts from Syria’s Islamist-led government to restore order following a US-brokered deal to avert further Israeli military intervention.
As Druze fighters clashed with Sunni Bedouin tribes, who were later joined by government forces, reports emerged from Sweida of regime forces killing women and boys, looting homes, and shaving Druze clerics’ mustaches. Videos also showed Druze fighters beating captured government forces and posing by their bodies.
Israel launched dozens of airstrikes on convoys of government fighters and struck the Syrian defense ministry headquarters in central Damascus, saying it was acting in support of the Druze, who form a substantial community in Israel and are seen as a loyal minority, often serving in the Israeli military.
In a latest show of support for Syria’s Druze, the Health Ministry said on Saturday evening that Israel’s security forces would deliver medical equipment and medicine to a hospital in Sweida once it has received authorization to do so from all relevant authorities.
“Our brotherhood with the Druze community is well known, but beyond that, we are committed to a ‘covenant of life.’ We cannot stand idly by when members of the community — inside or outside Israel — are in danger,” Health Minister Uriel Buso said.
“This initiative reflects the values that guide Israel’s healthcare system and our longstanding alliance with the Druze community,” said Health Ministry Director General Moshe Bar Siman Tov. “Providing medical assistance to the injured is a moral obligation.”
Fighting persisted across the Sweida province on Saturday, and a war monitor reported toward night that Druze fighters had successfully pushed out rival armed factions and regained control over their city.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said that “tribal fighters withdrew from Sweida city on Saturday evening” after Druze fighters launched a large-scale attack.
Earlier Saturday, an AFP correspondent saw dozens of torched homes and vehicles, and armed men setting fire to shops after looting them.
The Syrian interior ministry announced that internal security forces had begun deploying in Sweida province, and AFP correspondents saw them manning checkpoints, trying to prevent more people from joining the fighting.
By evening, Bassem Fakhr, spokesman for the Men of Dignity, one of the two largest Druze armed groups, told AFP there was “no Bedouin presence in the city.”
Syria’s Information Minister Hamza al-Mustafa on Saturday evening said that after the first phase of the ceasefire, which began on Saturday and involved the deployment of security forces to the province, a second phase would see the opening of humanitarian corridors.
Raed al-Saleh, Syria’s minister for emergencies and disaster management, told state television that “the humanitarian situation is bad” and that convoys were waiting to enter Sweida when “the appropriate conditions” present themselves.
According to the United Nations, the fighting has displaced least 87,000 people.
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