{"id":38924,"date":"2025-07-21T09:04:43","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T09:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/963media.com\/en\/?p=38924"},"modified":"2025-07-21T09:04:43","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T09:04:43","slug":"eu-sanctioned-militia-fighter-details-foreign-role-sectarian-killings-in-suwayda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/963media.com\/en\/21\/07\/2025\/eu-sanctioned-militia-fighter-details-foreign-role-sectarian-killings-in-suwayda\/","title":{"rendered":"EU-Sanctioned Militia Fighter Details Foreign Role, Sectarian Killings in Suwayda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Suwayda, southwest Syria \u2013 <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A captured fighter from the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/data.europa.eu\/apps\/eusanctionstracker\/subjects\/176036\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EU-sanctioned<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Sultan Suleiman Shah Brigade has revealed disturbing details about the recent armed assault on Suwayda, alleging orders to carry out sectarian killings and the involvement of hundreds of foreign fighters, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported on Sunday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The confessions were made in a video obtained by the Observatory, in which a member of the group, formally known as the 62nd Division under commander Mohammed al-Jassim \u201cAbu Amsha\u201d, describes coordinated movement, foreign participation, and instructions to target members of the Druze community in southern Syria.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the detainee, between 200 and 300 foreign militants, mostly of Uzbek and Turkistani origin, took part in the assault. Some of these fighters were reportedly specialized in explosives and military engineering.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He added that nearly 800 vehicles gathered in Asharna village in the al-Ghab Plain in Hama province (central Syria) before proceeding toward rural Daraa, eventually reaching the village of Walgha in Suwayda in\u00a0southern Syria&#8217;s Druze majority province, and then entering the provincial capital.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The fighter claimed that his group received explicit orders to \u201ckill or behead\u201d any Druze individuals they encountered, describing the attack as part of a systematic sectarian \u201cextermination campaign.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Read also: <a href=\"https:\/\/963media.com\/en\/29\/05\/2025\/eu-sanctions-syrian-militia-leaders-lifts-most-sanctions-on-damascus\/#\">EU Sanctions Syrian Militia Leaders, Lifts Most Sanctions on Damascus<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He also alleged that the attacking forces intentionally obscured their affiliation with Syria\u2019s Ministry of Defense to avoid triggering an Israeli response. Some of the attackers reportedly belonged to the General Security Directorate, though the majority were not affiliated with any local tribal factions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Sultan Suleiman Shah Brigade is a Turkmen-majority militia founded in 2016 in Jarabulus by Muhammad Hussein al-Jasim (Abu Amsha). Now operating under Syria\u2019s Ministry of Defense, the group is part of the Syrian National Army. It has been implicated in serious human rights violations, including arbitrary killings of civilians during the March 2025 violence in Syria\u2019s coastal region, with reports of deliberate targeting of the Alawite community. The brigade also participated in the 2018 invasion of the Kurdish-majority city of Afrin, where it was involved in widespread abuses such as rape, kidnapping, and property seizure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The revelations come amid increasing civilian distress in Suwayda, where activists have documented the disappearance of 80 Druze women and girls during the weeklong conflict.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Syrian activist Sawsan Abu Raslan shared a list of the missing on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/m.facebook.com\/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid0Wojux1KcHqfK8wGyGRHXnGBhBSXuqiXNcN5J8NkmPe8G129GBPvkZxBq7dnxaKkcl&amp;id=100001602838722&amp;mibextid=Nif5oz\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, urging widespread circulation. \u201cWe hold the Syrian government, civil society actors, international organizations, and the media fully responsible for the fate of our women,\u201d she wrote.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suwayda, southwest Syria \u2013 A captured fighter from the EU-sanctioned Sultan Suleiman Shah Brigade has revealed disturbing details about the recent armed assault on Suwayda, alleging orders to carry out sectarian killings and the involvement of hundreds of foreign fighters, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported on Sunday. 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