HISTORICAL FACTS: 39 - The Untold Story

Syria clears Bedouin fighters from Suwayda city, declares halt to clashes

Claim comes after a new truce between Druze and Bedouin groups in Suwayda and a US-brokered deal to end Israeli attacks.

Al Jazeera · Jul 20, 2025

Clashes, Homes Torched In South Syria's Sweida Despite Ceasefire

Smoke rose from burning houses in south Syria's Sweida on Saturday and an Arab tribal fighter vowed to "slaughter" residents as deadly clashes with Druze fighters persisted.

International Business Times · Jul 19, 2025

David Pratt: Israel’s expansionism is the clear and present danger

IT’S a strategy that for time immemorial has been framed in terms of words like “self-defence”, “survival” and “national security”.

The National (Scotland) · Jul 19, 2025

Syria declares new Suwayda ceasefire, deploys forces to ‘restore security’

Israeli intervention ‘reignited tensions’, with fighting ‘a dangerous turning point’, President al-Sharaa said.

Al Jazeera · Jul 19, 2025

Dozens reported dead and more than 100 wounded after Israeli attacks on Gaza aid centres – as it happened

Gaza’s civil defence agency said ‘Israeli gunfire’ had killed 22 people at one site and four at another

The Guardian - UK · Jul 19, 2025

Escalating unrest in Syria lays bare new regime’s momentous challenges

Division between minority populations drag Syria further into cycle of violence and attracts Israeli opportunism

The Guardian - UK · Jul 19, 2025

Syria's interim president urges Bedouin tribes to commit to ceasefire to end clashes with Druze

The agreement comes after intense clashes displaced tens of thousands of people and contributed to a worsening humanitarian crisis in a region still recovering from over a decade of brutal civil war.

Euronews · Jul 19, 2025

Syrian security forces deploy in Suwayda; US brokers Israel-Syria ceasefire

US ambassador says truce was ‘supported’ by the US and ’embraced’ by Turkiye, Jordan and Syria’s neighbours.

Al Jazeera · Jul 19, 2025

Israel is exploiting the vacuum left by southern Syria’s sectarian clashes and a weak state

Several days of bitter sectarian fighting in the south of Syria has brought the fledgling government in Damascus dangerously close to direct conflict with Israel, after Israeli warplanes launched strikes against government buildings in the Syrian capital, Damascus, on July 16.

The Conversation · Jul 18, 2025

West London man found guilty of travelling to Syria to join Al Qaeda-linked group

Isa Giga was arrested last year after travelling to fight for the Jaysh Al Fath group in Syria

Evening Standard · Jul 18, 2025