2024 Syrian opposition offensives - The first Syrian rebel offensive against Government forces since March 2020

[Abowaffen]

Is this nigga really going to plunge Syria into another civil war just so he can keep selling captagon to Jordanian teenagers?

 

[Justsomecicada]

I don’t think Syria can take another civil war tbh, like at that point it won’t be a civil war it will be a decent into warlordism even more then the previous civil war

Edit: nigga how is that optimistic that’s like as grim as it can get

 

[Chuckwagon]

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Is this nigga really going to plunge Syria into another civil war just so can keep selling captagon to Jordanian teenagers?

Apparently he's now telling his troops (through spokesmen) to not go around blatantly ethnically cleansing & looting the Bedouins.

Yeah well, it's a couple burned villages, beheaded children & raised Israeli flags too late for that. Nigga's already become the Syrian Antoine Lahad, might as well own it at this point.

I don’t think Syria can take another civil war tbh, like at that point it won’t be a civil war it will be a decent into warlordism even more then the previous civil war

Edit: nigga how is that optimistic that’s like as grim as it can get

Sectarian balkanization is the worst possible outcome, but it's one that grows likelier by the day and which it seems Bibi is shooting for (as a Syria locked in perpetual civil war between a thousand sect-based fiefdoms is one that's an easily controlled playground for Israel and which certainly cannot pose a 1948-73 style threat to them ever again). Unfortunately the ripples are extending far past Suwayda's borders already, earlier today Druze students all the way in Aleppo University (who, it must be noted, have nothing to do whatsoever with Suwayda Province or Al-Hijri's army) were assaulted with furniture & kept out of their dorms by angry Sunni students.

The Bedouins pushed Al-Hijri's army all the way back to the outskirts of Suwayda City, taking more villages as they went and also burning Druze houses down in retaliation for the Druze doing the same thing to Bedouin houses yesterday. They've also captured some Druze prisoners, and I doubt there's a kind fate awaiting those guys owing to the brutality of the fighting & atrocities in this region.

Once they made it to the western suburb of Walgha Al-Hijri got the Israeli air support he needed to knock them back, this will probably make the Bedouins scatter and allow the Druze to regain at least some of the lost ground. Then this cycle will restart tomorrow & the day after that & so on, until and unless one side gets tired of this shit.

 

[Chuckwagon]

Double post I know, but although the major battles & back-and-forth seizure of villages may have ended for now, skirmishes between the Druze & Bedouins have continued into the night & early morning. The Bedouin tribesmen may be numerous and ballsy (have to be to knowingly charge at an enemy you know can call for arguably the strongest non-USAF air force in the region to bomb you anytime), but undisciplined and reckless fighters, much more so than the gov't troops had been. Their clashes with the Druze, who are similarly lightly equipped and undisciplined, have that 'two retards fighting' energy and is reminiscent of the 2011-12 civil war battles where few people on either side & from most factions really had any idea what they were doing. Some rando with an RPG was filmed yelling 'ice cream' at the Druze while firing said RPG at them, another was singing while blowing up a Druze house. Since they have no great anti-air defenses, they've also resorted to just burning random junk in an attempt to mess with Israeli drones (I don't expect that will help much).

Spoiler: Bedouin nighttime skirmishes with the Druze across Suweyda

Still despite their glaring weaknesses, eccentricities & the Israeli airstrikes against which they don't really have any defense to speak of, the Bedouins seem to be winning as of this writing. They relieved the siege of a Bedouin town by Al-Hijri's army overnight, saving 400 of their people, and are confident enough to chill & eat sweets outdoors near Suwayda City in spite of the obvious danger from Israeli jets & drones.

These Bedouins are either Suwaydan exiles (keep in mind Bedouins formed 1/3 of Suwayda's population before this outbreak of inter-ethnic hostilities) or from neighboring Daraa BTW, a lot more tribes around Syria have gone apeshit at the news of the Druze massacres of Suwaydan Bedouins and mobilized, but most were still on their way to Suwayda as of this evening (some are coming from the other side of the country). The threat of the Bedouin tribal swarm & his own men's inability to decisively beat back the first wave of tribesmen even with Israeli air support has apparently spooked Al-Hijri so much that he actually asked AJ to come back and mediate with the Bedouins again - a move so blatantly retarded in light of his treason that I thought it was fake news & an especially silly rumor at first, but Al-Jazeera is confirming the story.

The government response has been to say 'lol you treasonous nigger, you got the Jews to twist our arm into that retarded ceasefire and we're sticking to it, how about you go ask them for help against the tribal horde' pretty much. The same happened with Jarbou, the second of the three chief Syrian Druze religious elders, who turned against the gov't and spat on the agreement he signed with them earlier when Israel forced the withdrawal but now seems to have had second (or rather third) thoughts about his allegiances.

English translation of the gov't statement:

Statement:

Presidency of the Syrian Arab Republic:

In the context of the Syrian state's commitment to avoiding further escalation, and in response to the US-Arab mediation that took place yesterday evening, the Syrian leadership has decided to withdraw military forces to their positions and barracks to allow for calming efforts in As-Suwayda Governorate. This decision was made based on a clear understanding that guarantees the commitment of outlaw forces not to resort to revenge or use violence against civilians.

What happened subsequently represented a clear violation of these understandings, as these forces engaged in horrific violence, documented worldwide, which included the commission of horrific crimes that completely contravene the obligations of mediation, directly threaten civil peace, and push toward chaos and security collapse.

While calling on all parties to calm down and exercise self-restraint, the Syrian state stresses the need to allow state institutions to exercise sovereignty and enforce the law. It affirms its full commitment to holding accountable all those involved in committing crimes and violating the law, regardless of their affiliation.

The Syrian state renews its unwavering commitment to protecting all Syrians, regardless of their sectarian or religious background. The Syrian state also calls on the international community to support its efforts to restore stability, control uncontrolled weapons, and enforce the rule of law throughout Syria. It also warns against continued blatant Israeli interference in Syria's internal affairs, which only leads to further chaos and destruction and further complicates the regional situation.

Finally, protecting Syria, its unity, and the security of its people is the responsibility of the state. The Syrian government will continue to take all necessary measures to protect its citizens and preserve their dignity, without compromising any threat to civil peace or national sovereignty.

Spoiler: Various Bedouin tribes across Syria mobilizing against the Druze

Azaz, in the far north:

Deir ez-Zor, in the northeast:

Homs, central Syria:

Idlib, northwest Syria and AJ's home base:

A grand council of tribal elders issued a statement, basically a call to arms in order to stop the ethnic cleansing of Bedouins in Suwayda. (That video won't attach no matter how many times I try.) The elders also declared that they won't drink coffee until Al-Hijri has been defeated.

And these are just the Syrian Bedouins, there's even more tribes living in Jordan & Iraq. The ones in Jordan (which already doesn't like Al-Hijri for being a drug trafficker) especially could cause problems if the conflict gets worse, they're one of the core constituencies of the Hashemite kings' powerbase in that country so he can't afford to just tell them to fuck off & this shit definitely has potential to spill over even more if the anti-Bedouin atrocities escalate further still. For example, Syrian Bedouin women expelled into the desert with their families by the Druze earlier today have appealed to the Jordanian king for help.

Edit: Also, unconfirmed reports that AJ and his family have fled Damascus due to a possible coup. Though the source is Al-Mayadeen, which is to say Hezbollah, and I can't find anyone who isn't an Axis of Resistance partisan talking about this so it might well be BS.

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

Both Iran and Israel want to keep Syria as a failed state so they can play games with each other. Where is Turkey and the Saudis when we need them? Ideally they could be used as a peacekeeping force. The Syrian people have been through enough tbh.

The problem is that unless you got trillions of dollars you'll inevitably becomes someone else's bitch in the middle east no matter what. With this principal war is always inevitable.

 

[Fanatical Pragmatist]

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Is this nigga really going to plunge Syria into another civil war just so he can keep selling captagon to Jordanian teenagers?

Haven't you heard those teenage boys will do anything for captagon though?

Edit: Also, unconfirmed reports that AJ and his family have fled Damascus due to a possible coup. Though the source is Al-Mayadeen, which is to say Hezbollah, and I can't find anyone who isn't an Axis of Resistance partisan talking about this so it might well be BS.

Looks like the Elite Tiger Forces have finally completed their encirclement of Aleppo Hama Homs Damascus!

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

Also, it's probably safe to say that the chances of Syria joining the Abraham Accords just dropped to zero.

Nah, Al Qaeda man will cuck for Israel in 2 months.

 

[mindlessobserver]

What the fuck Israel?
They literally had a government in Syria basically standing down and ready to agree to partial demilitarization and they go and sperg out over minority factions

Israel wants the entire Golan heights, mount hermon and the Sea of Galili watershed. Its not that hard to understand, and is hardly sperging. Just some good ole' fashioned great power conniving to take advantage of a chaotic situation.

 

[Combustion Engine]

Al Qaeda man will cuck for Israel in 2 months

If he lives, some people are already asking his head to be cut off (link). The west spent quite a lot on the "former" AQ brethren, and he played the part well as Syria's remaining, rusted military equipment was getting blown up. One has to wonder how much further they can go.

 

[Chuckwagon]

Yesterday I expected there to be a lot more dead Bedouins from IAF strikes when I woke up, and although there haven't been as many as I thought there might be, there were still enough for the Druze to parade around on their vehicles or otherwise mutilate & hang in Suwayda. (Same picture again, but from a different angle and with the Druze cameraman visible.) That Israeli air cover has allowed them to push the Bedouins back a ways & regain ground around the western suburbs of Suwayda, such as Walgha (location of the night airstrike from before). Furthermore Al-Hijri seems to have decided this is a good time to start purging the pro-gov't Druze.

Spoiler: NSFW - Druze driving trucks with Bedouin corpses on them, hanging mutilated Bedouins around Suwayda and killing their own for being Syrian loyalists

Nevertheless the Bedouins aren't giving up, they seem to still be in high spirits and those reinforcements from the tribes outside Suwayda are starting to pour into the province; it's been said that this is the first time that all of the Syrian Bedouin clans have been united over something, anything, since French colonial times. They've been pushing the Druze back from other villages around Suwayda City and capturing warehouses of Druze military supplies, missiles & such. In what little actual battle footage I've been able to find today (as opposed to bragging about captured towns, parading enemy corpses around or other warcrimes) the Bedouins have still got the Druze on the run whenever Israel isn't bombing away in support of the latter and taking towns ever closer to Suwayda City.

Spoiler: Local archive of the above Bedouin videos

The situation is dire enough for the Druze that they have resorted to using the Bedouin women & children they've taken hostage as human shields, publicly threatening to murder them if their men should come any closer to Suwayda. These fags are really reminding me of the worst parts of the SAA - not the brave bastards who could actually fight like Zahreddine (ironically a Druze himself) but rather the cowardly cunts who can't win even with air support (be it from the IAF or RuAF) and are at their deadliest when dealing with unarmed civilians.

Both sides continue to burn down each other's houses as well and the damage from the Sunni atrocities in Suwayda City (not by the Bedouins, but back when the official gov't forces were in the city) is becoming more visible. Can't attach the latter video but it's definitely horrific, looks like hundreds were killed.

Spoiler: Mutual house burnings by Druze & Bedouins against each other

Speaking of gov't forces. Despite what I have just said and linked, it's now turned out to be true that not only was Al-Hijri a big enough retard to ask for them to come back after getting Israel to expel them in the first place, but now the Israelis themselves are apparently for this solution as well, saying they'll 'let' the gov't army do gov't things within the official Syrian borders - most gracious. Can't imagine the IAF is afraid of the Bedouins considering they have no AA capabilities and drive around in huge convoys of Toyotas (piss easy target for Israeli planes & drones) so there's probably been pressure from Trump forcing this sudden change in course. Naturally, the Druze troops on the ground are not taking this development well.

 

[Abowaffen]

These fags are really reminding me of the worst parts of the SAA

Its because they literally are. Literally. These ARE all former SAA. Al-Hijri fomed his military council ONE day after Assad's fall. Everyone on that council is former SAA officers.

 

[Chuckwagon]

More battles between the Bedouins & Druze throughout the day.

Spoiler: Suwayda battle footage from today (no visible deaths)

Bedouin tribesmen advancing against Druze positions somewhere near Suwayda City.

Druze forces recapture the town of Walgha (just outside Suwayda City) for the 500th time.

Bedouins re-re-capture Walgha for the 501st time, claim that they had to retreat previously due to running out of ammo.

Bedouin tribesmen showing off a pile of equipment captured from the Druze.

Bedouins trash-talking their Druze opponents during a firefight. Comments suggest their accents may be Iraqi (which would mean Iraqi Bedouins have crossed the border to join the fray) or, more likely, from Deir ez-Zor (northeastern Syria).

And the stream of tribal reinforcements for the Bedouin side continues, day and night.

Spoiler: More tribal convoys

Some bloodier scenes: The Bedouins wiped out a Druze squad in & around a house the latter had been using as their defensive compound, looks like 4-5 dead men outside (presumably trying to retreat before their position was completely overrun, only to be ambushed by the pursuing Bedouins before they could get away) and one more dead sniper being dragged out of the room he was holed up in (attempting to cover for his retreating fellows from there perhaps?). In a third clip, a Bedouin has killed another Druze sniper on a rooftop elsewhere.

Spoiler: NSFW - various dead Druze troops filmed after battles

Bilal Abdul Kareem, the black convert to Islam and memetic reporter who had been following the rebels for ages, is also back to cover the Suwayda clashes.

Feuding Bedouin cousins bury the hatchet to go fight the Druze together.

In terms of new war crimes, the Druze tore off the arms of a Bedouin boy by tying said arms to vehicles and then driving off in opposite directions. The boy has since bled to death.

Spoiler: NSFW - dying Bedouin boy with no arms

On the other side, it's been claimed that Bedouin tribals have fooled an old Druze woman with assurances of safety only to murder her later. There's video of them talking to her in the link, but I've not been able to find any photos or videos of her dead. They did film themselves humiliating & shaving a Druze guy in front of his mother though.

To end on a more wholesome note, both sides have also shown kindness, albeit unfortunately there's been much less of it than the sadistic warcrimes. The Bedouin tribesmen have freed a Christian family from their Druze captors (as there's no great sectarian beef between Druze & Christians in Syria to my knowledge, Al-Hijri's men probably just kidnapped these Christians for ransom, a standard 'business' for Arab bandits regardless of sect) and in another video, they spared a surrendering Druze militiaman after he ran to his house and at the appeal of his mother. On the Druze side, at least one religious elder tried to reassure local Bedouins that he & his people mean them no harm and persuade them not to leave Suwayda.

Spoiler: Bedouins freeing Christians from Druze captivity, Bedouins sparing a Druze fighter, Druze sheikh trying to reassure fleeing Bedouins

 

[Gibs]

I have been collecting videos from this conflict. I will post the most shocking form of content first, that being the gore and deaths of the conflict. Some of these videos may be reposts.
NSFW warning, you will wittiness death, blood and gore from clicking these spoilers. You have been warned.

Spoiler: Executions and two men getting beaten.

A poor pig being shot and killed by a Jihadi. I muted the audio as it was quite horrid.

Jihadis executing men by shooting them while they lean off balconies.

A group of men on their knees are gathered and then are executed.

Jihadi executes a man with his AK.

Jihadi forces a man on knees and shoots him in head with his handgun. The killer was also seen in a different video showing him in a vehicle with civilians, who are presumed to be captured by the killer.

Two men with their hands zip tied are being beaten and stomped by Jihadis.

Spoiler: Compilation of dead civilians.

Spoiler: Compilation of dead fighters.

Spoiler: Photos of dead fighters. One of them has an Islamic State headband.

 

[Chuckwagon]

The next step in the Israeli master plan is...to bring the same gov't forces they just forced out of Suwayda, right back in after two days, because Al-Hijri very obviously can't handle the heat he unleashed and Jerusalem seriously needs to buy time for their puppet to not die.



AJ is now trying to close the roads from Damascus to Suwayda off to the Bedouin convoys that haven't made it to the latter already. I can forecast some of the ways this could go down,

1) AJ's men actually miraculously somehow manage to deescalate the situation, get the Druze to disarm & forget about their own atrocities against Druze in Suwayda and the Bedouins to back off & forget about the Druze atrocities against Bedouins, all at the same time. Everyone sits down to hold hands around a cozy campfire & sing kumbaya. This is, obviously, the most insanely outcome.

2) AJ fails to control the Bedouin tribes (armed to the teeth, autonomous & independent-minded even under Assad, more numerous than his own army and police). Israel proceeds to bomb him and the Bedouins, but while they can fuck up the SA/GSS, they're just going to piss the Bedouins (who have already been fighting & winning under Israeli airstrikes) off even more. Most likely it will turn into a race between the IAF trying to kill every Bedouin in Syria (because now all the tribes are swarming Suwayda and they've just kept coming no matter how many of them get bombed by Israel or killed & then hanged by the Druze), and the Bedouins trying to separate Al-Hijri's head from his shoulders before turning their AKs southward. Will probably end with Syria descending into anarchy and the Druze getting marginalized at best, outright expelled & genocided like the Lebanese Christians after Haddad and Lahad's treason there.

3) AJ goes in, takes the side of the Bedouins so they don't actually rebel & coup him, kills Al-Hijri for being a perfidious faggot and in all probability massacres the Druze himself. Israel gets big(ger) mad and almost certainly bombs him harder than ever before in retaliation. Ends much like 2), Syria's future is darker than vantablack and will probably be one without the Druze no matter what happens next.

4) AJ goes in, gets bombed before he can do much of anything anyway, fucks off again and lets the Bedouins and Druze go right back to killing each other. Considering how badly the Druze were doing even with the IAF backing them up, unless IDF ground troops go in, they'll almost certainly end up losing and getting genocided.

5) Any of the above three happen but Israel takes it as an excuse to launch a major ground invasion of Daraa & Suwayda, which is pretty much the only way the Druze can avoid defeat and Al-Hijri can avoid getting killed (or at best exiled to Israel like Lahad after 2000) at this point. The South Lebanon Syria Security Belt Administration is a go until Israel gets bored in 20+ years' time, at which point vengeful Bedouins will return to expel the Druze and kill anyone with the last name Al-Hijri as Hezbollah & the Lebanese Shiites did to the SLA in Southern Lebanon.

At a minimum I can't see any way for 'deescalation' to happen without getting Al-Hijri out of the picture, whether it's by a Bedouin assassin shooting/blowing him up or the Israelis evacuating him to Mt. Hermon. That nigger's fucked up multiple past agreements between AJ and the other Druze elders already and even if the Druze are still in his corner, the non-Druze Syrians (not just Bedouins) now see him as a local combination of Quisling & Himmler, any effort by AJ to stop the Bedouins from trying to kill him will be as fruitful as Amine Gemayel's efforts to make peace with Israel & Haddad/Lahad.

 

[Abowaffen]

1) AJ's men actually miraculously somehow manage to deescalate the situation, get the Druze to disarm & forget about their own atrocities against Druze in Suwayda and the Bedouins to back off & forget about the Druze atrocities against Bedouins, all at the same time.

My guess: Aj takes over the cities and bedouin/Sunni areas and maybe even some anti-Hijri druze towns while Hajiri's men mostly self patrol their own communities. Aj promises not to enforce law in said pro-Hijri villages, while Hijri stops trying to take over local government/Suwayda city and stop fucking with bedouins. Maybe this is just my hopium.

 

[Chuckwagon]

My guess: Aj takes over the cities and bedouin/Sunni areas and maybe even some anti-Hijri druze towns while Hajiri's men mostly self patrol their own communities. Aj promises not to enforce law in said pro-Hijri villages, while Hijri stops trying to take over local government/Suwayda city and stop fucking with bedouins. Maybe this is just my hopium.

Al-Hijri has refused all past deals, including all which allowed for Druze autonomy + police & garrison units in Suwayda to be recruited entirely locally. His only counter-proposal to the gov't, to my knowledge, required for Suwayda to become not only an autonomous region but a Druze state-within-the-state + his son to be put in charge of the Suwaydan police/garrison. And of course, he directly sabotaged every attempt by AJ to rein in the situation, including by ambushing & massacring gov't police that his fellow sheikhs asked for in the first place (this was in fact what got AJ to send in the army to begin with). He's also taken advantage of the SA/GSS withdrawal to purge his internal rivals so who knows how many Druze are even left alive to oppose him besides Al-Balous.

Man won't stop until he's either dead, exiled or the king of Suwayda, and I think Israel thinks the same since as their puppet, they naturally want him to be their satrap over Suwayda.

According to a Syrian newspaper, the terms of this latest agreement are as follows:

Al-Watan newspaper :

The details of the US-sponsored agreement:

The entry of state administrative and security institutions to the governorate
Integrating factions from Sweida into the security and the Ministry of Defense and assigning them, in cooperation with other units, to maintain police and security inside the governorate.

Handing over heavy and medium weapons from the Bedouins and Druze
Integrating the Druze into the political future in the next stage
The possibility of the exit of those who reject the agreement through a safe route out of the country.

Holding perpetrators of violations accountable according to the law on both sides.

Syrian newspaper Al-Watan (media sources)

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(Just ran that through DeepL)

The 'exit through a safe route out of the country for those that disagree' point seems to be aimed squarely at Al-Hijri, ie. if he doesn't take his deal (and I doubt he will) he can fuck off to Israel or even back to his Venezuelan cradle before an Islamist VBIED or an angry Bedouin assassin gets to him. Still seems like this agreement will be a bitch & a half to enforce though, I doubt the Bedouins will agree without the release of the hostages (the same ones the Druze had been cowering behind to survive by the end) and Al-Hijri's exile or head on a spike as a baseline, and a man of Al-Hijri's ambition isn't going to accept the loss of his weapons & militia unless he absolutely has to (for example, because Israel has abandoned him behind the scenes).

 

[Abowaffen]

Al-Hijri has refused all past deals

That was when he knew Israel was batting for him. This time he knows Israel cannot or will not make him king of Suwayda, so he might actually to stick to the terms this time.

 

[Chuckwagon]

That was when he knew Israel was batting for him. This time he knows Israel cannot or will not make him king of Suwayda, so he might actually to stick to the terms this time.

Well we don't actually know that, which is part of the problem. It's entirely possible that Israel said one thing to AJ and another to AH, plotting to bomb the former again once the Syrian gov't forces move in to further weaken them & benefit the latter. Hell I wouldn't even put it past Bibi to be playing both sides - get AH to restart his unwinnable war with promises of continued/heightened Israeli support, get himself killed, then launch the ground invasion to crush AJ's army under the excuse of 'protecting the even more endangered Druze minority' and turn Daraa + Suwayda into South Lebanon 2.0. Al-Hijri even already has at least one possible successor (his son, Mahmoud IIRC) so Israel could always install that next guy as their next satrap in place of the 'martyred' AH.

 

[Chuckwagon]

Welp, as I expected, Al-Hijri didn't allow the agreement to stand for more than a few minutes. At first, late last night/very early this morning he issued a seemingly conciliatory statement...

Translation from the Syrian Civil War subreddit,

kaesuraUSA [score hidden] 9 hours ago

The Spiritual Presidency of the Community:

We begin by praying for the souls of our righteous martyrs who perished in the recent attacks that targeted the land of Suwayda, including innocent civilians and brave young men who died fighting to defend their humanity, dignity, and Druze identity.

The members of the Druze community have never been advocates of division or strife; rather, throughout history, they have been a beacon of humanity and brotherhood, and the mountain has always been a refuge for every oppressed and fearful person.

After all this pure blood that has been shed on our land, we renew our call today to uphold our humanity and extend our hand to deal with every honest person to end the current clashes, stop the gunfire, and resort to the voice of reason, wisdom, and humanity, not to weapons and chaos.

However not long after, he issued another contradictory, much more militant statement rejecting any gov't presence in Suwayda past the border counties with Daraa and calling for the remaining Bedouins inside Suwayda province to be 'allowed to exit safely and securely with trusted escort from the factions working on the land' - which is to say, for the ethnic cleansing of Bedouins to continue.



On top of that, the Druze have started making good on their threats to murder Bedouin hostages if the Bedouin forces keep advancing.

Spoiler: NSFL - Druze burnt an entire Bedouin family to death, one of the tribesmen filming comments that they killed even the children

They have also beheaded Bedouin men, both civilian hostages and enemy prisoners/corpses, and left the heads out on the streets of Suwayda City to taunt the Bedouins. (Apparently you can tell Bedouins apart from the Druze based on their hair & beard styles, as Bedouins tend to favor longer & wilder hair than Druze.)

Spoiler: NSFW - decapitated Bedouins

Suffice to say, the Bedouins are pissed and still fighting. Gov't forces have arrived in parts of Suwayda Governorate but not in the provincial capital itself, where the Bedouins are going berserk, and I don't think they can stop said Bedouins even if they wanted to; AJ might also well be using the Bedouins as a proxy force to retake control of Suwayda, as they're handing off captured positions to these gov't units after defeating the Druze. One unit of reckless retards charged Suwayda City's western entrance without support in a rage, got ambushed and are probably all dead by now - perhaps some of the heads on the streets belonged to them.

However the Bedouins just kept zerg rushing Suwayda's western gates until the Druze retreated. They've since pushed well into the city proper where heavy fighting continues, but as no IAF strikes have been reported today, the Druze are losing even harder than before and are reportedly falling back eastward toward Al-Hijri's core villages while the Bedouins are freeing their hostages as they go. The Bedouins' recklessness & lack of discipline is definitely getting more than a few of them killed, but they just keep coming and Al-Hijri's militia can't seem to withstand the human wave, and they're freeing hostages even under active Druze fire. They've also taken some of the Druze militiamen prisoner and seem as though they can't decide whether to kill them all on the spot or keep them alive for a hostage exchange later.

Spoiler: This morning's battle footage, there are corpses in some videos

In retaliation against the earlier Druze atrocities and hostage-taking, the Bedouins have also been taking Druze civilians hostage, including entire families and religious elders (they're arguing in that video, presumably also over whether to kill the visibly terrified sheikhs for Al-Hijri's crimes or to keep them alive & safe for hostage talks, but fortunately it seems the cooler heads prevailed among the Bedouins that time), and occasionally outright murdering random Druze civvies they find in addition to beheading Druze around the city. (Can't download the last video)

Spoiler: NSFW - Bedouins hauling away an injured Druze, unclear if it's a civilian or POW from Al-Hijri's army; Bedouin tribesmen standing over murdered Druze

This mess is shaping up to be a sanguinary rout and yet at no point can the Druze seem to stop being psychotic sandniggers for two seconds (which in turn just leads to the Bedouins trying to out-nigger them), either Al-Hijri still has a death wish or he's actively trying to get his people exterminated across Syria to justify an all-out Israeli invasion.

 

[Fapcop]

I love how a decade or two ago, all we would know about this would be delivered by some CNN faggot 5 mins from their air conditioned hotel, hundreds of miles away from any actual fighting.

Today, anyone with a dead wish, a Twitter account and a PRESS jacket goes out and reports straight from the frontline.