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The World This Week - 50 Days for Putin: “Much Ado About Nothing?”, UK Data Breach Scandal, Israel Bombs Damascus
DAMASCUS GOVERNORATE, SYRIA, JUL 18 – Ceasefire ends week-long sectarian clashes that killed over 300, with Israel's airstrikes aimed at protecting the Druze minority and preventing Syrian government consolidation.
- In July 2025, Israel launched airstrikes on key Syrian government sites in Damascus amid escalating sectarian violence in the Druze-majority province of Sweida.
- The strikes followed intensified clashes between Druze militias and Sunni Bedouin groups fueled by deep sectarian disputes and Syria’s fractured state after Assad’s fall.
- Syrian interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa sought a ceasefire and agreed to hand security over to local Druze factions while Israeli forces threatened to continue strikes until government troops withdrew from Sweida.
- At least 600 people have died in the fighting, Israeli Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir vowed to prevent southern Syria becoming a terror base, and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres condemned the airstrikes as escalatory.
- The conflict’s outcome remains uncertain but mediation efforts by the U.S., Turkey, and Arab states have temporarily eased tensions without resolving underlying sectarian and geopolitical rivalries.
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Israel-Syria agree to ceasefire amid Druze-Bedouin clashes, says US. Why did Tel Aviv bomb Damascus?
Israeli officials urged Druze citizens to stay home to avoid risking their lives amid ongoing violence in Syria. The Druze, historically navigating power shifts, remain politically divided after Assad's fall.
After the Israeli attacks in Syria, both countries agreed on a ceasefire, which was reported by the U.S. Special Envoy. The attacks were triggered by fighting between Druze and Bedouins with hundreds of deaths.
This announcement by Tom Barrack, Friday on social network X, comes two days after the Israeli strikes targeting Damascus.
The World This Week - 50 days for Putin: “Much ado about nothing?”, UK Data Breach scandal, Israel bombs Damascus
A panel of Praris-based journalists review the week's international news: stories that made the headlines and also those the viewers may have missed. Putin’s 50 days deadline: “Much ado about nothing?”, The Afghan leak & the UK super injunction, Why did Israel bomb Damascus?
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