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Syrian Observatory Blasts US Envoy for Claiming Syrian Government Forces Not Involved in Suwayda Executions - News From Antiwar.com
SWEIDA, SYRIA, JUL 23 – US envoy Tom Barrack said Islamic State militants disguised as government forces may have caused sectarian violence in Sweida, where about 1,000 people were killed, officials reported.
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In the spring, a pogrom broke out in the coastal provinces, and in recent weeks the Druze minority has been embroiled in a bloody conflict, in which government forces have also intervened in addition to the Bedouin tribes. The massacre may have claimed more than a thousand victims. Israel has intervened with air strikes on the Druze side. The situation calls into question the sincerity and strength of the Islamist government that replaced the As…
Syrian Observatory Blasts US Envoy for Claiming Syrian Government Forces Not Involved in Suwayda Executions - News From Antiwar.com
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), a UK-based rights group that tracks violence in Syria, has released a statement criticizing US Ambassador Tom Barrack for claiming Syrian government forces were not involved in the mass executions of civilians in Suwayda, southern Syria. Seven days of clashes between Druze militias…
ISL May Be Responsible For Atrocities Against Druze, Not Syrian Forces: US Envoy - Iran Front Page
US envoy Tom Barrack has suggested that Syrian government forces were not responsible for atrocities committed against the Druze community in southern Syria, and that the armed fighters who carried out the attacks may have been Islamic State militants disguised in government uniforms.
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