According to activists, hundreds of people died in the days of unrest in southern Syria.

After days of bloody unrest in Syria between Druze militias and Sunni Muslim Bedouin tribes, the situation in the city of Suwayda is reportedly under control for the time being. The Syrian state news agency Sana reported on Telegram, citing the Interior Ministry, that the city had been cleared of all tribal fighters and that clashes in the neighborhoods had ended. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported cautious calm on X.
The city of Suwayda is predominantly inhabited by Druze. The Druze are a religious minority that originated from Shiite Islam. They live in Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio called on the online platform X for an immediate cessation of all fighting in the troubled region in southern Syria. The ongoing rapes and the "slaughter of innocent people" must end, he wrote.
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, nearly 1,000 people have been killed in the unrest so far. This figure cannot be verified, but the information provided by the Observatory, which monitors the conflict in Syria with a network of informants, is generally considered reliable.
Violence in southern Syria erupted about a week ago. Syrian interim government troops intervened. In response, Israel bombed government buildings in Damascus and government army convoys en route to Suwayda, with the stated goal of protecting the Druze in Syria.
Following the overthrow of Syria's former ruler Bashar al-Assad in December 2024 and years of civil war, the situation in ethnically and religiously diverse Syria remains fragile. Since Assad's fall, there have been repeated outbreaks of violence in various parts of the country, sometimes resulting in hundreds of deaths.
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