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US Calls for Restraint as Tensions Rise in Suwayda
(MENAFN) US envoy Tom Barrack voices concern over a fresh rise in tensions in Syria’s southern Suwayda province on Saturday, calling on all parties to avoid further escalation and return to dialogue.
“We are dismayed by the renewed escalation in Suwayda,” Barrack wrote on X.
He pointed to a trilateral peace roadmap agreed nearly a year ago with Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani and Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi. According to Barrack, the initiative was designed to achieve “the dignified reintegration of the province into Syria, with the full rights and the full obligations of citizenship for its Druze community.”
“That path remains the only one that leads anywhere but back to grief,” he said.
Barrack praised Syria’s Druze population as “a people of noble and ancient history,” while cautioning that weak governance could create space for armed groups to take control.
“Where governance is absent, gangs fill the void,” he said, referring to Atef Hunaidi, whom he said had been “arbitrarily detained and driven from his home.” He added that his team remained in contact with Hunaidi and other people affected by “intracommunal violence.”
The US envoy also called for continued coordination among Druze communities, Arab tribes and neighboring states, stressing the importance of maintaining relations founded on “tolerance and understanding.”
“We are dismayed by the renewed escalation in Suwayda,” Barrack wrote on X.
He pointed to a trilateral peace roadmap agreed nearly a year ago with Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani and Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi. According to Barrack, the initiative was designed to achieve “the dignified reintegration of the province into Syria, with the full rights and the full obligations of citizenship for its Druze community.”
“That path remains the only one that leads anywhere but back to grief,” he said.
Barrack praised Syria’s Druze population as “a people of noble and ancient history,” while cautioning that weak governance could create space for armed groups to take control.
“Where governance is absent, gangs fill the void,” he said, referring to Atef Hunaidi, whom he said had been “arbitrarily detained and driven from his home.” He added that his team remained in contact with Hunaidi and other people affected by “intracommunal violence.”
The US envoy also called for continued coordination among Druze communities, Arab tribes and neighboring states, stressing the importance of maintaining relations founded on “tolerance and understanding.”
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