How Foreign Agendas Hijacked a Local Crisis in Syria

How Foreign Agendas Hijacked a Local Crisis in Syria

The violence in Sweida this month exposed the fragility of Syria’s post-Assad order, in which outside interference and failure to broaden political representation threaten the national euphoria that followed the collapse of the regime seven months ago. It began with a roadside assault on July 11. A Druze vegetable seller was beaten and robbed by armed Bedouins along the Damascus-Sweida highway. Coming after a series of tense incidents between th…