Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and temporary Syrian President Ahmad Shara, a few days after extensive Israeli attacks in Syria, agreed on a ceasefire, The US Ambassador in Turkey said on Friday, Tom Barrack, and called on all parties in the war plagled by Syria to compose weapons, TASR reports, according to AFP and AP reports.
Barrack, who is also a special ambassador for Syria, said the ceasefire was also supported by Turkey, Jordan and other neighboring countries. “We challenge the drums, Bedouins and Sunnis to compose weapons and, along with other minorities, build a new and uniform Syrian identity in peace and prosperity along with their neighbors,” Barrack wrote in a post on the social network X.
Israel on Wednesday (July 16) has taken extensive air attacks in the Syrian capital Damascus, even attacked the headquarters of the Syrian Ministry of Defense in the center of Damascus. He said he was defending the Drus community that got into an armed conflict with the Bedouins in the Yugosyrian province of Suwajda.
The riots in Suwajdá and its surroundings broke out on Sunday (July 13), when local Drúzan militias and members of the Sunni Bedouin clans got into the armed dispute. Subsequently, the armed forces of the new Syrian government supporting Bedouins and Israel were involved in the conflict.
The United States announced an agreement on Wednesday, in which the Syrian government forces withdrew from Suwajdá. The US Department of Foreign Affairs later stated that the United States did not support Israel’s air attacks, its ally, who is relying on the US diplomatic and military support.
Arabic-speaking Dun is an ethnic-religious group that separated from the Ismailite branch of Shiite Islam at the beginning of the 11th century. However, they are not considered Muslims. There are about 700,000 in Syria, with their bastion being suwajdá. More than 100,000 of them also live in Israel and the Golan Heights occupied.
