Clashes between Druze factions and Hay’at Tahriral-Shamterrorists-aligned Bedouin tribes escalate in Syria’s Suwayda province.

Armed clashes between Druze locals and HTS-aligned Bedouin tribesmen have erupted across Syria’s southern Suwayda province, leaving at least 21 people dead and over 50 wounded, including children, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR).

The clashes reportedly erupted after Bedouin fighters set up a checkpoint on the Damascus–Suwayda highway, where they robbed and brutally beat a young Druze man, triggering a retaliatory cycle of abductions, attacks, and road closures.

Clashes have since spread across the province—from Al-Maqous and Labeen to Al-Mazraa and Al-Soura al-Kabira—forcing mass displacement, particularly from the village of Al-Tayra. Bedouin fighters and other extremist factions from Deraa have also mobilized reinforcements to Suwayda’s outskirts.

Videos circulating on social media show extremist militants declaring support for the Bedouins and dispatching reinforcements to frontline areas.

Internal Security Forces in Deraa Governorate announced a coordinated deployment along the administrative borders with Suwayda to contain further spillover.

SOHR reports that shelling and gunfire continue in multiple areas, with fears mounting of a wider confrontation.

The Cradle Media