Geopolitics Watch

17 July 2025 22:53

🇸🇾🇸🇾🕊 NEW: The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports that a total of 597 people have been killed as a result of ongoing clashes, field executions, and Israeli airstrikes.

— Among the dead are 217 individuals from the governorate of Sweida, including 71 civilians, four of them children and four women.

— Security forces suffered heavy losses as well, with 275 members of the Ministry of Defense and Public Security killed, including 18 from the Bedouin tribes.

— Israeli airstrikes also claimed the lives of 15 members of the Ministries of Defense and Interior.

— One journalist has been killed amid the fighting in Suwayda.

— In addition, 83 civilians, including four women and an elderly man, were executed by elements of the Syrian Ministry of Defense and Interior.

— Druze gunmen have executed at least three Bedouin civilians, among them a woman and a child.

Geopolitics Watch

17 July 2025 21:54

🇸🇾❌🇸🇾 — Bedouin clans continue to advance toward Suweida.

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17 July 2025 21:50

🇸🇾❌🇸🇾🇮🇱 — Syrian security forces blocked the roads leading to the Damascus square in Damascus likely fearing Israeli airstrikes as non-governmental bedouin clans are advancing toward Suweida.

Geopolitics Watch

17 July 2025 21:21

🇸🇾🤝🇮🇱❌🇸🇾 — Israeli airstrikes targeted groups of Bedouins in the town of Al-Waleh in the countryside of Sweida.

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17 July 2025 21:04

🇸🇾❌🇸🇾 — Tribal fighters reportedly performed a breach in the western side of Suweida

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17 July 2025 20:41

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- BREAKING: IDF soldiers present on the ground in As Suwaida, southern Syria, assisting Druze separatists.

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16 July 2025 23:59

🇺🇸🌊 — Tsunami Warning downgraded to Tsunami Advisory.

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16 July 2025 22:56

🇺🇸 — President Trump has signed the "HALT Fentanyl Law", permanently classifying Fentanyl as a schedule-1 drug.

➡️ Schedule-1 drugs may not be used medically or recreationally and may not be advertised.

Geopolitics Watch

16 July 2025 21:58

🇮🇱🇸🇾❌🇸🇾 — The Syrian forces are reportedly withdrawing from Suweida in obedience to the IDF orders.

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16 July 2025 21:46

🇸🇾🇮🇱❌🇸🇾 — Syrian army heavy vehicles and weapons continue to withdraw from Suweida as Internal Security vehicles enter the city, all amid Israeli airstrikes hitting both convoys.

Geopolitics Watch

16 July 2025 21:10

🇺🇸🇮🇱🇸🇾🇸🇾 — US Secretary of State:

After talks with the parties concerned, we agreed on steps that would end the situation in Syria tonight.

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16 July 2025 20:49

🇸🇾🤝🇮🇷❌🇮🇱 — Iranian Foreign Minister :

➡️The brutal Israeli regime knows no borders and understands only one language.

➡️Iran supports Syria's sovereignty and territorial integrity and will always stand by the Syrian people.

Geopolitics Watch

16 July 2025 20:40

🇸🇾🇮🇱❌🇸🇾 — According to initial reports the Syrian government forces started withdrawing from Suweida after receiving threats from Israel, stating that the air strikes would continue if it did not withdraw.

➡️However it seems that Israel is bombing the convoys withdrawing from Suweida despite abiding by the Israeli demands.

Geopolitics Watch

16 July 2025 20:30

🇮🇱🇸🇾❌🇸🇾 — An Israeli airstrike has targeted Syrian security forces convoy, dozens of casualties are reported.

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16 July 2025 20:21

🇸🇾🇮🇱❌🇸🇾— Unverified reports that the Syrian army is withdrawing from Suweida.

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17 July 2025 22:43

🇸🇾🤝🇸🇾❌🇸🇾 — Bedouin clans are reporting that the syrian government security forces are preventing their convoys to Suweida to fight against the Druze separatists.

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17 July 2025 21:52

🇮🇱❌🇱🇧 — A girl from Qabriha, South Lebanon, sends a voice message on the phone after an Israeli strike targeted their home saying:

Help me, mom and dad are dying, I'm pretending to be dead so they don't bomb us again.

Geopolitics Watch

17 July 2025 21:43

🇸🇾❌🇮🇱🇸🇾 — Bedouin tribes have captured the town of Al-Mazra'a and are sitting tires on fire in an attempt to obstruct drones surveillance.

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17 July 2025 21:05

🇮🇱🤝🇸🇾❌🇸🇾— Israeli drones seen over Dar'aa going towards Suweida.

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17 July 2025 20:46

🇸🇾❌🇸🇾 — Fighting is concentrated between Hazm and Al Khalkhalah between SMC Druze militias and tribal fighters, Druze reinforcements are being called north.

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17 July 2025 00:04

🇸🇾🇸🇾⚡️ Pro-Syrian Druze Leader Laith al-Balous to Al Jazeera:

Our position on the Israeli state is clear. We've always said we [the Druze] do not need anyone to protect us.

Syria is our motherland, and there is no alternative; we either live here with dignity on this land or die with dignity beneath it. We are not in need of foreign protection, and that's been our stance since the revolution began, not just today.

These calls for intervention are political maneuvers exploiting the South Syria issue. We are against foreign and partition projects. Now, we have a legitimate Syrian state, one that aligns with the people's hopes and aspirations. We're seeing Israeli interference and attempts at division, and we categorically reject this.

Geopolitics Watch

16 July 2025 23:49

🇺🇸🌊 — Imminent tsunami near the Alaskan peninsula including Sand Point, the first stage has begun with water receding ahead of the expected tsunami.

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16 July 2025 22:45

🇺🇸🥤 — Coca-Cola will be using real sugar in their drinks following a request by President Trump, presumably removing high fructose corn syrup from their formula.

➡️ Despite misconceptions, real sugar is not healthier for you than high fructose corn syrup is; the differences between the two are negligible from a health viewpoint.

Geopolitics Watch

16 July 2025 21:56

🇮🇱🇮🇱❌🇸🇾 — IDF chief of staff:

The Sharaa has a deadline of several hours, and if there is no complete and full withdrawal from Suweida, we will begin a new phase and move to a new level of fighting.

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16 July 2025 21:15

🇺🇸❌🇮🇷🇾🇪 — CENTCOM-backed NRF militia intercepted 750 tons of weapons shipped from Iran for the Yemeni Ansarullah (Houthis)

➡️The hardware includes hundreds of advanced cruise, anti-ship, and anti-aircraft missiles, warheads and seekers, components as well as hundreds of drone engines, air defense equipment, radar systems, and communications equipment.

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16 July 2025 20:58

🏴❌🇸🇾 — 'Islamic State' terrorists killed 5 SDF militiamen between Al-Shaddadi and Tal Shayer in al-Hasakah governorate, northeastern Syria.

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16 July 2025 20:44

🇸🇾🇮🇱❌🇸🇾 — Footage shows the aftermath of a targeted Syrian security forces convoy in Suweida.

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16 July 2025 20:34

🇸🇾⚡- "Dozens of bodies, including members of security forces and civilians, found at Suwayda National Hospital after armed groups withdrew from it," - Syrian Health Ministry.

The Syrian government echoes what the Syrian journalists initially claimed - the massacre was allegedly carried out by the Israeli-backed Druze separatists.

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16 July 2025 20:28

🇸🇾🇮🇱❌🇸🇾— The IAF is bombing Syrian army convoys leaving Suweida, as Internal Security forces have been deployed throughout the city - Defense Ministry.

Geopolitics Watch

16 July 2025 20:12

🇸🇾🇮🇱❌🇸🇾— A convoy of the Syrian army was struck by Israeli airstrikes inside Suweida.