Druze, Syria and Bedouin
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Syrian government starts evacuating Bedouin families from Sweida in a bid to end weeklong clashes
The Syrian government has begun evacuating Bedouin families from Sweida after over a week of violent clashes between Druze militias and Bedouin fighters.
The Syrian Arab Red Crescent and Civil Defense teams, assisted by female-led volunteer groups, launched rapid response operations in Daraa to register and assist the arriving families. Humanitarian aid convoys were also seen passing through Busra al-Sham heading toward As Suwayda, under the supervision of relief organizations.
Members of the Syrian American community in Portland are grieving the loss of loved ones following attacks in southern Syria.
Dozens of people lined up to donate their blood as soon as the donation center opened and 40 samples were collected in just two hours. Magen David Adom began a blood drive on Sunday in the Druze-majority village of Isfiya to support Syrian Druze wounded by militia groups and Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) regime forces in recent clashes,
An American citizen from Oklahoma was among eight men, all family members, rounded up and killed during the sectarian violence that flared in Syria last week.
Hundreds of Bedouin civilians were evacuated from Syria's predominantly Druze city of Sweida on Monday as part of a U.S.-backed truce meant to end days of bloodshed in southern Syria, state media and witnesses said.