Fragile Calm Returns to Syria’s Sweida as Bedouins Withdraw Following Weeklong Clashes
Fragile Calm Returns to Syria’s Sweida as Bedouins Withdraw Following Weeklong Clashes MAZRAA, Syria – A cautious calm has descended upon Sweida, the Druze-majority city in southern Syria, after armed Bedouin clans announced their withdrawal on Sunday, July 20, following a week of intense fighting and a U.S.-brokered ceasefire. The clashes, which pitted Druze militias against Sunni Muslim clans, resulted in hundreds of casualties and threatened to destabilize Syria’s already precarious postwar transition. The withdrawal, confirmed by the Bedouin clans,…