(15 Jul 2025)
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Daraa, Syria – 14 July 2025
1. Smoke rising from Sweida (site of clashes)
2. Mid of troops gathered
3. Mid of tank set on fire
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Noureddine al-Baba, Syrian Interior Ministry spokesperson:
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“These clashes are fundamentally not sectarian in nature, nor rooted in any sectarian conflict. The Syrian state is fully committed to maintaining an impartial stance toward all segments of Syrian society."
5. Mid of troops driving around in pick up trucks
6. Mid of a burnt building
7. Wide of ambulance in front of hospital
8. Mid of Syrian Red Crescent workers taking victim to ambulance
9. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Dr. Mahmoud al-Zaabi, Izrie Hospital director:
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"We had more than 60 injured people come to Izrie Hospital, the injuries ranged from mild, to moderate, to severe. And we also received eight deaths."
10. Various of Dr. Mahmoud al-Zaabi examining a patients
STORYLINE:
Syria’s Interior Ministry said Monday more than 30 people have died and nearly 100 others have been injured in fighting in the country’s Sweida province.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a U.K.-based war monitor, reported at least 89 dead, including two children, two women and 14 members of the security forces.
The clashes in Syria initially broke out between armed groups from the Druze and Sunni Bedouin clans, the observatory said, with some members of the government security forces “actively participating” in support of the Bedouins.
Syria’s Interior Ministry on Monday stressed that fighting was not related to sectarian violence.
"These clashes are fundamentally not sectarian in nature, nor rooted in any sectarian conflict. The Syrian state is fully committed to maintaining an impartial stance toward all segments of Syrian society," said spokesperson Noureddine al-Baba.
Israel’s army on Monday said it struck military tanks in southern Syria in response.
Israel has previously threatened to intervene in Syria in defense of the Druze religious minority.
Over half of the roughly 1 million Druze worldwide live in Syria.
Most other Druze live in Lebanon and Israel, including in the Golan Heights, which Israel captured from Syria in the 1967 Mideast War and annexed in 1981.
The Druze religious sect is a minority group that began as a 10th-century offshoot of Ismailism, a branch of Shiite Islam.
In Syria, they largely live in the southern Sweida province and some suburbs of Damascus, mainly in Jaramana and Ashrafiyat Sahnaya to the south.
Since Assad’s fall, different Druze factions have been at odds over whether to integrate with the new government and armed forces.
AP video by Abd Al-Rahman Shaheen and Ghaith Alsayed
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