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Syria, Jordan, U.S. Launch Roadmap to Stabilize Sweida After July Sectarian Bloodshed

A joint mechanism will supervise implementation focused on aid access, prosecutions, basic services and road protection.

Overview

  • The plan, announced in Damascus, calls for prosecuting those who incited the clashes, restoring services, securing main roads, facilitating aid, identifying the missing and starting reconciliation and returns.
  • Jordan’s Ayman Safadi said a Syrian–Jordanian–American mechanism will ensure the roadmap is carried out, alongside U.S. envoy Tom Barrack’s backing.
  • A Syrian military official told AFP that heavy weapons have been withdrawn from southern Syria in recent months, as Damascus and Washington pursue security understandings with Israel regarding the area.
  • Authorities named Druze leader Suleiman Abdel Baqi as Sweida city’s internal security chief, with officials saying security personnel in the province will be drawn from local residents.
  • More than 160,000 people were displaced, according to the U.N., while the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports large death tolls and alleged executions that authorities dispute.