Syrian Regime Accused of Mass Slaughter, Rape in Ongoing Assault on Druze Minority
“Syrian regime forces wearing Islamic State badges carry out bloody rampage.”
Despite repeated media reports of a ceasefire in southern Syria, the regime forces appear to be pushing ahead with their weeklong murderous campaign against the country’s non-Muslim Druze minority.
“Sectarian clashes escalated in Syria’s predominantly Druze region of Sweida on Saturday, with machinegun fire and mortar shelling ringing out after days of bloodshed,” Reuters reported Sunday.
“Reuters reporters heard gunfire from inside the city of Sweida and saw shells land in nearby villages,” the news agency added.
After a week of attacks by Syrian regime forces and affiliated jihadist groups on Syria’s non-Muslim Druze population, the death toll has risen to nearly 1000. On Sunday, the London-based Telegraph reported that “Syrian regime forces wearing Islamic State badges [carried] out bloody rampage,” based on eyewitness accounts.
Suweida – so called *Syrian Tribal Forces* are proudly wearing the flag of ISIS in their operation to exterminate the Druze minority in Syria.
They don’t care, they know that the world will remain silent.
The Syrian Government under Jolani has full media hegemony through… pic.twitter.com/GpB45zxWJI
— ScharoMaroof (@ScharoMaroof) July 18, 2025
“Government forces deployed earlier this week by interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa were blamed for joining in attacks on the Druze. More than 900 people are reported to have been killed in the past week,” BBC reported Sunday. The British daily Guardian placed the death toll at 1000, citing the UK-based watchdog Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR).
The killing continues after Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Saturday urged the Syrian leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa, to rein in the regime forces and jihadist fighters, who have been killing, raping, and displacing the Druze community in the south of the country.
“The rape and slaughter of innocent people which has and is still occurring must end,” Secretary Rubio wrote on X.
“If authorities in Damascus want to preserve any chance of achieving a unified, inclusive and peaceful Syria free of ISIS and of Iranian control they must help end this calamity by using their security forces to prevent ISIS and any other violent jihadists from entering the area and carrying out massacres,” he cautioned.
The U.S. has remained heavily involved over the last three days with Israel, Jordan and authorities in Damascus on the horrifying & dangerous developments in southern Syria.
The rape and slaughter of innocent people which has and is still occuring must end.
If authorities in…
— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) July 20, 2025
The Israeli news website Ynetnews, on Saturday, reported the Islamist campaign to murder, humiliate, and displace Syria’s Druze minority:
Additional testimony and footage emerged from the Druze stronghold in southern Syria showing abuses committed by Bedouin gunmen against local Druze. Among the most disturbing reports: the shaving off the mustaches and beards of elderly Druze sheikhs—a deliberate act of humiliation targeting those whom the jihadists consider apostates in Islam. (…)
Sweida province, home to roughly 700,000 Druze, is concentrated around the Jabal al-Druze (Mountain of the Druze). Like other minority communities in Syria, the Druze feared the rise to power last December of jihadist leader Ahmad al‑Sharaa, also known by his nom de guerre Abu Mohammed al‑Golani. Al‑Sharaa, with a background in al‑Qaida, led a surprise offensive that toppled the Assad regime after 14 years of civil war. (…)
An AFP correspondent on Saturday saw dozens of torched homes and vehicles and armed men setting fire to shops after looting them. Thick smoke blanketed the skyline. Some Bedouin fighters were seen brandishing rifles and swords; one man displayed a pair of scissors used, he said, to shave the mustaches of Druze sheikhs. In footage from the city, a suspected jihadist fighter was seen throwing a Druze flag into a street fire.(…)
“We’ve lost everything. Most of the people we know are dead—family, neighbors, everyone,” one local resident said. At Sweida’s central hospital, where more than 400 bodies have been brought in—including women and children—chaos reigned. Medical staff struggled to treat the wounded amid severe shortages of personnel and fuel. According to AFP, the hospital has begun burying bodies in a temporary mass grave after its morgue reached full capacity.
Druze civilians — including women and kids — are being hunted by Sunni Muslims in Syria.
The UN, the media, and Western elites stay silent, because they can’t risk hurting Islam’s image or slowing mass immigration.
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— Liza Rosen (@LizaRosen0000) July 19, 2025
Earlier this week, Israel intervened militarily to protect the beleaguered Druze minority, carrying out strikes against the Syrian regime forces involved in the murderous campaign. On Wednesday, an Israeli airstrike hit the Syrian military headquarters, showing Jerusalem’s resolve to stand by the Druze.
Israel is home to some 150,000 Druze, a flourishing community serving in the armed forces, civil services, academia, and other walks of life.
(Link to tweet: https://x.com/jenanmoussa/status/1946622624412373416)
Israel expands military operation in Gaza, eliminates Hamas’s commander responsible for rebuilding weapons stockpiles
The Israeli military has issued new evacuation orders as it widens the operation in northern and central Gaza. “IDF troops continue to expand their operations in Gaza City,” the military announced on Sunday.
“The troops are expanding ground activities in the Jabaliya area and are operating against terrorist organizations in the area,” an IDF press release said. “So far, hundreds of terrorist infrastructure sites have been dismantled, numerous weapons have been located, and dozens of terrorists have been eliminated.”
🚨 For the first time since the beginning of the war, the IDF is issuing an evacuation notice to residents in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip. “The IDF is expanding its operations to an area where it has not previously operated," the evacuation notice states. pic.twitter.com/zM3qZvQHzO
— Raylan Givens (@JewishWarrior13) July 20, 2025
Israeli ground troops were continuing to locate and destroy Hamas’s terrorist infrastructure, including the tunnel network. Combat Engineering troops of the 401st Brigade located and dismantled underground terror tunnels in the Jabaliya area, measuring 2.7 kilometers in length and approximately 20 meters in depth,” the Israeli military added. “Troops of the Southern Command continue to operate against terrorist organizations in the Gaza Strip in order to protect Israeli civilians, and particularly the residents of the communities near the Gaza Strip.”
Bashar Thabet, a Hamas commander responsible for the terrorist group’s weapons development and rebuilding its stockpile, was eliminated in an Israeli strike earlier this month, the IDF disclosed on Sunday.
“On July 10th, 2025, the IDF struck and eliminated the terrorist Bashar Thabet in the area of Nuseirat. Thabet was a commander in Hamas’ Development and Projects Department, within its weapons production headquarters,” the military said. “The terrorist was responsible for research and development activities within Hamas’ weapons manufacturing apparatus, which operates to restore and increase the weapons stockpile of the terrorist organizations in the Gaza Strip.”
⭕️Operational Update: IDF Activity in Gaza
❌ Eliminated: Bashar Thabet, a commander in Hamas’ Development and Projects Department within its weapons production HQ. He was responsible for research & development within Hamas’ weapons manufacturing apparatus, which operates to…
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) July 20, 2025
The Israeli Air Force struck additional terrorist targets across Gaza. “Additionally, the IAF struck approximately 75 terror targets throughout the Gaza Strip in cooperation with ground troops. Among the targets struck were terrorists, military compounds, and additional terrorist infrastructure,” the IDF revealed on Sunday.
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Mass slaughter and rape is just normal war. The slaughter is intimidation of the rest and rape is to humiliate the husbands.
Last seen among whites in Bosnia or one of those countries in the 90s, and probably ongoing in tribal warfare in Africa.
let djt takeover the whole region and let israel tcb
and alll will be good
but start first in america by stop the rcv that lefty is using to stop one person one vote normality
The media saw an attempt at genocide in Syria and didn’t report a thing till it stopped and when it was stopped was against the Jews who stopped it.
It tells you what you need to know about them.
agree
the lefty is outright not afraid to attack whts and jews as the blmplo street armies have made their way firmly into the politics of america
fjb x100000000000
^^^cant be stated enough^^^!
This is not just a Palestine problem, it is an Islam problem, in that Muslims are incapable getting along with each other and the rest of non Muslim people. They are barbarians, and proud of it.
Assad was replaced with Al Qaeda terrorist warlord. Out of the frying pan into the fire.
As many had predicted, at the time. Replacing one evil tyrant with another.
No, Assad was no better than his replacement. Out of one frying pan and into another, or out of one fire and into another, that’s all.
“Some Like it Hot”
so what?
keep eliminating evil
doesnt matter if “more” evil replaces them
It does matter if what replaces an evil is even more evil. Evil exists in degrees, and we must always prefer a lesser evil to a greater one. Being in a fire is objectively worse than merely being in a frying pan. We should always try to climb out of a fire, even if it’s into a frying pan, and to avoid falling in the other direction. But when there’s no significant difference between two evils then there’s no reason to prefer one over the other, or to regret replacing one with the other if that suits us.
Without any caveat that’s the recipe for the implementation and maintenance of ‘forever war’. It’s nothing more than whack-a-mole at the fairgrounds. We shouldn’t allow decisions on foreign policy and use of military force to be swayed by what amounts to carnival barkers luring in the gullible to waste $.
And, the utterly despicable, feckless, hypocritical, stupid and evil American Dhimmi-crats and European, leftist dhimmis, can’t summon a scintilla of opprobrium with regard to the Syrian regime’s conduct, nor any sympathy or concern for the Druze.
Apparently, it’s never a genocide when goose-stepping, belligerent and sadistic Islamofascists/Muslim supremacists are visiting their predations upon Jews, Druze, Christians, Hindus and other non-Muslims.
You know what’s amusing? (Not amusing in a humorous sense) The fact that the Nazi Party (the real one, not the “Nazi” pejorative) killed millions upon millions in order to create a master race free of any non-Aryians and the far-left squeals that the right is establishing the Fourth Reich here in America, which is utterly baseless. Yet, they are in complete alignment with Muslims everywhere and say nothing of their genocide, the genesis of which is straight out of the Koran.
Key takeaway is don’t wish for the breakdown of order much less a civil war but if one is happening then make dang sure to win. Much of violence/atrocities is rooted in settling scores (both real and imagined) between neighbors, families, clans, tribes. Some occurs without even minimal reason just someone in the wrong place choses as a victim. We don’t want any of this in the USA.
Muslims being Muslims. Nothing to see here. Move along now.
We really need to stop pretending that atrocities in armed conflict are unique to Islam. The Eastern Orthodox Serbs had no qualms about committing killings, rape, torture in the former Yugoslavia. See the British Army after taking Badajoz in 1812 or the 2nd Boer War concentration camps with 26K deaths. See the Japanese at Nanking. See the US Army and USMC in the pacification of the Philippines…it wasn’t hand holding and singing kumbaya.
Islam is more cult than religion, it would behoove all of us o treat it as such.
Islam is totalitarian genocidal death cult masquerading as a religion.
This is nonsense. There is no meaningful distinction between a cult and a religion. A religion is simply a cult that is at least several generations old and has a large following.
I think you’re mistaken about this. Islam has some cultic aspects.
From the google AI:
Cults may exhibit more controlling and manipulative behaviors, isolating members and demanding excessive sacrifices or obedience.
Due to their controlling nature and potential for charismatic leadership, cults can be more prone to abuse and exploitation.
Islam is no different in these two respects than any other religion.
May I ask why you even want to do this? Why does anyone make this supposed point, that it’s “a cult and not a religion”? What significance does anyone think this distinction has?
Cults are religions. They’re just relatively small and relatively new ones. Islam clearly isn’t small or new.
I get the feeling that people making this assertion imagine that labeling Islam as a “cult” will somehow illegitimize it, or even somehow deprive it of first amendment protection. But that’s nonsense. Not only do all religions get that protection, including “cults”, but the USA’s founders, the same people who proposed and adopted the first amendment, when writing of religious freedom would routinely and explicitly include Islam. Sure, they did it as a rhetorical flourish, not with any notion that the USA would ever have a significant number of Moslems; but they meant what they wrote. The first amendment was consciously intended to protect Islam as well as all other religions.
“Islam is no different in these two respects than any other religion.”
If that’s what you really think, then there is no point in continuing this discussion.
Meanwhile, some of Trump’s advisors are upset with Netanyahu because he’s bombing parts of Damascus to stop this mass slaughter, yet they’re not too upset with al-Shaara for the mass slaughter. Someone’s values are inverted.
Do you have trust in anonymous sources cited by mainstream media???
This is what actual genocide looks like.
I initially overlooked the Gaza part of the article but I am getting really tired of Gaza being a forever war because in addition to war being hell Israel is making itself a pariah state in practice and is making it extremely difficult to be Jewish anywhere outside of Israel.
Either finish of Hamas now or just sign the dam surrender documents.
If it achieves victory and eliminates Hamas from the Gaza strip Israel discredits the genocide claims and removes the threat of the next October 7th.
If it surrenders in return for a dozen hostages returning and accepts there will be another October 7th around a hundred times worst it could start offering scapegoats to try and only be relegated to the place horrible nations we need to appease like Nigeria inhabit.
The forever war can’t be forever if Israel is not to be dismantled it is that simple. J.D. Vance is far from being someone Israel could trust, Trump is not immortal and even if he was he is term limited, and Democrats despise Israel, and you could count the total number of allies Israel has on the fingers.
Distributing the death over a year instead of a week doesn’t mean no death it makes it take longer and gives the media time to do the job of Hamas propagandaists.
Like it or not Sitskrieg is about as effective for Israel today as it was for France 1939-1940.
Israel is the size of Rhode Island it can’t afford to permanently become a rogue pariah state which seems to be the strategy Israel’s leadership wants.
Danny,
Why would the Citizens of Israel expect another Nation’s Political Leadership to be trustworthy in the sense you imply; that of an booster/backer/friend?
I want the political leadership of the USA to be focused only upon the direct National Security and Foreign Policy interests of the USA which I would define as that which brings peace and prosperity to the broad US middle-class the 70% in the center between the top 15% and bottom 15%. The goals, desires and aspirations of every other Nation or interest ranks well below that.
President Washington was very wise to warn about entangling alliances. Lord Palmerston probably said it best in describing this view:
‘We have no eternal allies and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual and those interests it is our duty to follow’.
Neither the govt of the USA nor the Citizens of the USA owe any duty of performance to any other outside person, group, entity or Nation other than those we choose to perform. Where our own National interests coincide with those of another Nation then we can temporarily cooperate to achieve a common goal…but only if we choose to do so and only so long as our interests don’t diverge or other more pressing interests negate the advantages a temporary partnership.
First you are attacking a strawman. Name one example of me suggesting that the United States should prioritize Israel over itself.
Second Hamas took Americans as hostages, killed Americans, and in addition it took a very large number of sex slaves.
Even if Israel wasn’t a core American ally that gives us a massive advantage in technology and is economically aligned with us you don’t think there is an American interest against hostage taking?
How about piracy? Was the Royal Navy stupid to enforce a British no piracy ever policy in all trade lanes? I think like America today the Royal Navy created a golden age of trade Britain benefitted from doing that and I do not want that thrown away on the principle of “MORE EUROPEAN SHIPS IN THOSE WATERS!!” it doesn’t matter it is in America’s best interest to keep piracy a thing of the past and it is the U.S. Navy that is capable of that.
Israel didn’t exist when the Royal Navy correctly did what the U.S. Navy does today. Do you have any idea how easy it is to sabotage trade or how badly the world will be effected if everyone starts acting like the Houthis?
If you agree it is far from clear J.D. Vance agrees with Trump’s foreign policy that makes it all the more urgent for Israel to end the sitskrieg and actually militarily remove Hamas ending the war in Gaza even if a few dozen hostages are at risk.
If you feel it is in the U.S. interest for Hamas and the UN and the left to win this war leaving a precedent of how terrorism works, empowering CNN and the other terrorist groupies, and that taking hostages should become more tempting feel free to say so.
I support Israel for multiple reasons, I want it to win, and I want the alliance to continue which is why I posted a strong objection to their sit krieg campaign.
I am sick to death of “Isolationists” (especially who support Russia over Ukraine which is not isolationism) claiming that supporting a policy 3 out of 4 Americans support, supporting an ally against an enemy who wishes our destruction (enjoy “Death to America day” with Iranian terror war against America and all of the legendary amount of drug trafficking by their proxies like Hezbollah) and supporting what the current government says is America’s interests, and frankly in most cases (i.e. bad results for hostage takers and pirates) policies every country till a nanosecond ago agreed was essential as being some sort of “America last” just because that ally is Israel and American citizens taken hostage are Jewish.
There is no argument other than maybe Christ said love thy enemy for backing Iran/Hamas/Hezbollah/Houthis.
Danny,
Not at all. My was comment in response to your statement that ‘JD Vance is far from being someone Israel can trust’. What exactly is Israel trusting JD Vance with? You still didn’t specify.
If other Nations are worried about piracy they should invest in a Navy of their own. We don’t want to ‘rule the waves’ worldwide. The Atlantic, Pacific, Arctic and Gulf of America are quite enough to manage. The Mediterranean Nations can police the Med. Same for Red Sea, Persian Gulf and so on.
The USA is NOT the world police….unless of.course these other Nations are willing to directly pay for the privilege but that seems awfully close to a protection racket which is in may ways what ‘rule Britannia’ was about. I doubt these other Nations want to pay up.
I am very tired of folks, usually those who don’t have any ground combat service themselves, endlessly signing up the the USA for conflicts halfway around the world then slandering those who dismiss ‘isolationist’. Nope I am a non interventionist which is a middle position. We should have sent a Carrier group to the Med and demanded our US Citizens back by the time the Carrier group arrived and if Hamas failed to comply begin a non stop 24/7 rolling bombardment of Gaza until they did return them or every building in Gaza was rubble. Then firebomb the rubble. That’s the non interventionist Jacksonian position. I am frankly appalled that Trump didn’t do so.
Ukraine can pound sand. They allowed themselves to be used as a cats paw by the neocon/globalists and got hung out to dry when Russia finally had enough provocation. It doesn’t matter if you and I or anyone else doesn’t agree about the level or even presence of provocation …it only matters that Russia beloved it and acting on it…just as they said they would.
I haven’t seen anyone here ‘support’ Russia. Instead you are dishonestly conflating refusal to support Ukraine and their tinpot dictator Zelenzky with ‘support’ for Russia. If two Eastern European dictators want to slug it out that’s between them. It doesn’t concern us and if their EU neighbors want to have a go that’s on them, though we know they can’t b/c they’ve underfunded their military since the end of the Cold War and lack the capability to do jack squat. You seem to be endorsing more of this free riding. Nope that’s not MAGA or America First.
On part of it sorry for misunderstanding I am glad we agree on the principles of when U.S. citizens are involved. I also am glad you agree there are interests and they are what the Trump administration says they are involving Israel.
With Russia I wasn’t thinking about you and you are right to be irritated at me I was thinking very directly of the fact that a lot of isolationist commentators I used to respect even if not agree with had no condemnation for a rogue employee of the U.S. Federal Government countermanding arms to Ukraine against the foreign policy of Donald Trump.
You don’t have to agree with Trump but if you can’t carry out his policy you have no business in the U.S. Federal Government, and that is the only acceptable response. Trump is love him or hate him the only man voted into the office of the presidency and he is the only man constitutionally empowered to set foreign policy.
I do not agree with his coming indirect sanctions on Russia because I think India is too important to risk alienating (we do not know how India will react) However I do want the U.S. government to implement the Trump policy even when it is the part I do not agree with.
Concerning piracy I do not think you are grasping exactly how globally dependent the U.S. Economy is.
Allow a portion of the world economy to collapse on a principle of we don’t help others and you will see a depression in the United States.
The reason we rule the waves is exactly the same is why Britain did, our economy depends on continued rule of the waves to deter piracy.
Morally speaking yes we want Europeans to increase their navy size so they could help out to which is why Donald Trump has spent so much time successfully getting commitments from every European country to increase defense spending.
That doesn’t change the fact that our nations economy does depend on trade, without trade we would be in a depression over night and having the U.S. Navy prevent piracy provides us with major benefits.
We do want to rule the waves because our economy will in practice collapse if we don’t. That is why coming defense spending is intended to build up the U.S. Navy at the expense of the U.S, Army.
For my own combat experience I thank god every day I wasn’t the WW2 generation and that serving in the U.S. Navy did not cause any actual danger to myself.
Serving in the U.S. Army during the Ukraine war is exactly as dangerous as my service in the U.S. Navy (possibility of accident unimpacted by the Ukraine war).
Danny
The US is not dependent upon the economic health of other Nations to.support our own economic health. We don’t export much beyond Agriculture, Entertainment (movies/Games), software and Financial products/services. Raw materials we can seize if needed and we can (should) embark on a crash effort to return domestic manufacturing and production.
We should be building up our domestic manufacturing base to sever any reliance on imports Now of you want to argue that we have a Nat Sec risks by outsourcing our domestic manufacturing to include basics like aspirin then I’d agree but that’s not the globalist argument you are making.
We only want to rule the Near Pacific, the Arctic, the Atlantic and the Gulf of America. There’s nearly 200 other Nations many with far larger merchant fleets who can fund a Navy to protect their trade. FWIW we have about 200 vessels in our merchant fleet. When Britannia rules the waves it was to protect their own merchant vessels and trading outposts by bashing whomever got in the way. Bash our economic competitors (the rest of the world) with ‘gun boat’ diplomacy and if they don’t have ‘gun boats’ then they gotta bend over and take it. You didn’t make such a case buy I’ll sign on to that.
It isn’t the role of the USA to send our Sons and Daughters into harms way on behalf of anything other than the direct National Security interests of the USA defined as what’s good for the broad middle-class, not stock prices, not to do the bidding of globalist corporations or financial interests alone.
Great news that you’ve taken any boots on the ground off the table in Ukraine and by extension any action by the USA that might draw the USA or NATO into potential conflict with Russia. We should have used secondary sanctions from day one and hammered the European economies who helped fund the conflict with purchases of Russian energy. That’s how we stop the conflict instead of prolonging it.