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Druze armed factions in the southern Syrian governorate of al-Suwayda announced on August 23 that they had formed the National Guard under the command of the community spiritual leader Sheikh Hikmat al-Hijri.
In a statement, the factions, numbered at least 30, said that the National Guard will be the “official military institution representing the community,” and specified that the unified formation’s goals were to protect the mountain and the Druze identity.
They added that the new unified formation aims to ensure the defense of the Druze identity and the protection of al-Suwayda.
“We renew our pledge to sacrifice our most precious possessions to protect Jabal al-Arab [common name for al-Suwayda] and preserve our Ma’rouf and Tawhid dignity, adhering to these constants until the last drop of blood,” the statement reads.
Last month, Syria’s Islamist-led Interim Government dispatched its military and security forces to al-Suwayda to break up a conflict between Druze factions and local Bedouin gunmen. However, government forces ended up joining the gunmen in a sectarian-motivated, large-scale attack aimed at subduing the Druze.
Israel intervened, citing its historic relations with its own Druze community. The government withdrew, but the Bedouin launched another attack that was rebelled by the Druze on their own. The fighting ended with a ceasefire brokered by the United States. However, the government has since kept the governorate under siege, allowing only limited amounts of supplies to enter.
Druze factions maintain control over al-Suwayda city along with nearly all of its eastern and southern countryside. However, government forces are still holding most of the northern and western countryside of the governorate.
The battle saw major violations by government forces. Out of more than 1,700 reportedly killed, over 550 were Druze civilians executed by troops and Bedouins. Dozens of Druze women were also abducted.
The violations and the siege led to a strong stance against the Syrian government among Druze, with many openly praising the Israeli intervention and calling for the right to self determination during demonstrations in al-Suwayda earlier this month.
The formation of the National Guard appears to be a first step towards a breakaway state in al-Suwayda. Another attack by the government seems unlikely. Despite openly meeting with the Israeli officials in France earlier this week, Israel appears determined to help Syrian Druze, possibly because it sees it as a way to tear down the war-torn country.
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this is good, they must be able to protect themselves from erdoganists/isis/hts inhuman savages. unfortunately israel is still the undisputed power in the region, all except houthis and iran bow before the zionist entity.
red neck. lately you having lots of baked beans you are nothing but hot air talking rubbish
there’s a better chance of scottland gaining independence from the united kingdom than those pathetic druze pinworms gaining autonomy from sharaa the headchopper al-jolani while he’s alive and in power.
i hope there is someone in britain on power who will listen to alan duncan and defend the kurds and the druzes, because russia is a criminal, erdogandic, traitorous country.
what did russia do to you? lol they aren’t traitors they saved and assisted the resistance for years. challenging israeli & us hegemony in the region for years. they did their part. & we’re disappointed & let down miserably by assad & his forces
why not? they have the backing & blessing of israel to do so?! as much i hate israel i hate shara & hts more, & i hope the druze, kurds, the alawites & other minority communities gain autonomy if not full independence from the terror state.
just another divide and conquer plan by israel!
kick the jooz out of syria all the way back to khazaria.
if nato hadn’t been sent jews to steal oil for nato, jews would now have crimea to be the capital of israel. that’s their country.
a genocidal state must be destroyed. no matter from which side, even if it is done by another genocidal state.
i hope that criminal jolani and bald putler are fooled by bibi and armed the druze. i hope that when it is necessary to defend the kurds, nato will respond more decisively than israel responded when it was necessary to defend the druze.
a desert rat killed another desert rat would be a better title.
checkpoint clash | rapid intervention forces member shot de*ad in talkalakh
on aug 24, 2025
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homs province: a member of the rapid intervention forces was killed today by gunfire from al-jaafariyat checkpoint members in the city of talkalakh, western homs countryside, following disputes that broke out between general security and the rapid intervention forces.
according to sohr sources, the incident occurred after the fighter failed to stop at the checkpoint, forcing security members to open fire.
talkalakh, a sensitive border area with lebanon, is a known corridor for smuggling operations involving goods, fuel, and other materials, adding pressure on security checkpoints and raising the risk of clashes among security bodies on their duties. sources note that disputes between general security and rapid
rats occasionally eat each other. cannibalism spreads, especially when food runs out. i wish russia would have such a poor harvest this year that it wouldn’t have enough grain even for its own rats, let alone the desert rats. i want life in syria to be like an abandoned ship, where rats eat each other as the ship is tossed by a storm.
wtf do you hate putin and russia so much? they did nothing wrong
the genocidal criminal syria must be completely destroyed and dismembered.
this genocidal syria deserves a huge comet to fall on it.
the hook noses are busy kiling journalists, women and children in gaza
hopefully they can take back their country like saa did in 2017/2018
i don’t believe this can happen. prigozhin and utkin are dead. my only hope is that the uyghurs get syrian passports and force china to use the virus to clean up this human waste.
unfortunately, this cannot happen without the assassination of erdogan’s supporter putin.
you mean putins help after intervening to save assad, syrian state and the resistance also. who mostly orchestrated the checks and balances of power between israel, turkey, iran & russia itself in the syrian theatre ?! they never betrayed anyone
the criminal conglomerate called syria should be abolished or turned into a martian desert.
israel wants to snatch away southern syria with aid of intiltrators in the druze community they will cleanse these druze from what they see as their greater israel when the time is right. but these druze dont seem to realize that.
those rats helped assad collapse and sold out syria they are the reason israel was able to walk in and take key strategic positions.
julani is another jewish pawn.
they sold out the syrian people under assad syria was a strong nation one with a military and the strategic and chemical weapons to destroy israel is it ever tried to steal more of its land. russia and turkey and the west all cooperated in weakening syria. the only right thing to do was that assad was given full support by moscow to crush the headchoppers in idlib when he had the chance.
because putin let them stay there to please erdogan and didnt help assad all the way syria has fallen.
putin should have learned when the turkish drones destroyed the ill prepared syrian army when it tried to take idlib that he needed to change his military strategy he didnt and and that is why the conflict in ukraine is dragged out so long.
ru needed better anti drone weapons and drones of their own along with their allies syria and armenia. had syria and armenia and russia had the means to deal with drones more effectively and use them themselves these conflicts would have ended 180 degree different.
it is only now that the russian side has geared its arms industries to counter those effectively and produce them of their own.
rite but this also occurred as it it was happening in real time though. they both started off with limited use, as ukraine began receiving more and more, and when they got himars, and russia started losing artillery shells thru fire support & due to precision guided missiles & rocket attacks on russo ammo depots & storage facilities. they also began increasing their use. simultaneously and then took the lead
but russia does have the means to effectively defend & protect itself from them, and more effective at using them & improving & developing them. armenia yes you’re right they were unprepared & static in their reaction. syria to but it still wasn’t on a scale large enough to have been the decisive factor in routing assads forces. they could’ve had drones & still melted away
truth to this but it wasn’t his fault or job to change strategy, it falls on his commanders & advisors on the ground at time. also it’s on assad & his frontline generals to assess & flood in reinforcements if needed, coordinate with russian troops & leadership in syria to ensure combat readiness, situational awareness, that they were proactive & can effectively defend & protect themselves & their positions.
1 putin didn’t keep syria weak, he saved assads syria, putin only opened diplomatic channels & cooperated with us, turkey & israel in strategic dialogue about avoiding direct confrontation, deconfliction & deescalation. putin absolutely did support assad fully & supply his troops with weapons. but u can’t expect russia to risk conflict with turkish troops, israel or us in syria! which they have
assad was a too comfortable, lazy, content, ineffective & incapable leader. he was preoccupied with kissn ass of gulf arab states, trying to be politically accepted back into the fold. he betrayed iran, fed intel to israelis, leaned heavily on russia at expense of iran, & ignored the warnings, threats, movements, plans, attacks & signs in the ground & by his own intelligence folks & russian intel. russia bombed& strathed hts targets until he realized it was pointless.
in england, un europe, in bulgaria, greece,france,spain every 15 minutes an
underage girl or
a kid being gang raped by muslim immigrants or refugees.
in england every 1 hour an english man has been killing by refugees or migrants.
but english tv channels do not broadcast this reality because arab countries pays them.
faraga will
make england great againnnn..