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Nusra Front fighters kill 20 Druze in Syrian village

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AL NUSRA FIGHTERSMembers of the al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front Sunni militant group have killed 20 Druze villagers in northwestern Syria, a group monitoring the war reported on Thursday.

The incident occurred on Wednesday in the village of Qalb Loze in Idlib province, where the Nusra Front is part of an insurgent alliance that has seized wide areas from government control in the last three months.

The Druze faith is an offshoot of Islam viewed as heretical by the puritanical school of Sunni Islam espoused by al Qaeda.

 The shooting spiraled out of a confrontation that began when a Nusra Front member tried to confiscate the house of a villager who was fighting alongside Syrian government forces, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported, citing local sources.

The dead included elderly people and at least one child, the UK-based Observatory said. A member of the Nusra Front was also killed when villagers managed to seize a weapon from a Nusra Front fighter.

An account of the incident attributed to a Nusra Front fighter and published on a Twitter account used by the group’s supporters laid the blame with the villager who had refused to relinquish the house to someone described as “in need”. It did not give a casualty toll.

Syria’s state-run news agency SANA described it as a massacre.

The president of Israel, home to a sizeable Druze community, on Wednesday expressed concern to the United States about the fate of the Druze minority in Syria, saying around 500,000 of them were under threat from Islamist militants in an area near the Israeli border in southern Syria.

Lebanese Druze leader Walid Jumblatt had made contact with Syrian opposition factions and “influential regional forces” that had yielded a “joint effort” to guarantee the safety of villages in the northwest that had “stood by the revolution”, according to al-Anbaa online, a news publication published by Jumblatt’s Progressive Socialist Party.

“The problem” had been contained, it said.

In an interview with Al Jazeera news channel last month, the leader of the Nusra Front urged members of the Alawite sect, another minority, to change their beliefs and to renounce President Bashar al-Assad, a fellow Alawite, if they wanted to remain safe.

Nusra Front is the second most powerful insurgent group in Syria after Islamic State, which also controls large swathes of Iraq. The two groups share hardline Sunni Muslim jihadist ideology but disagree over Islamic State’s proclamation of its leader as caliph ruling over all Muslims.

Nusra Front is now allied to other groups fighting against Assad, including some which have received support from Arab allies of the United States, which is leading an air campaign against Islamic State and also opposes Assad.

 

REUTERS

 

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13 responses to “Nusra Front fighters kill 20 Druze in Syrian village”

  1. O Avatar
    O

    Interesting timing. Just a day after the Israeli president “warns” about Druze being killed, they are killed. This reeks of a set up
    “group monitoring the war reported”. Whic group?
    Normally they mention the name but some anonymous “group” reported it?

    1. cook2half Avatar
      cook2half

      Israeli Druze warned the Israeli government that Islamists are approaching the Druze areas in syria, hence the president’s comments and the inevitable killings. I don’t see a need for a conspiracy.

      1. O Avatar
        O

        I don’t see the need for you to breath

        1. cook2half Avatar
          cook2half

          You talk to your father like this?

          1. O Avatar
            O

            No but I talk to your whore of a mother like this

          2. cook2half Avatar
            cook2half

            You mean your grandmother.

            That’s right. I..am your father..

          3. Ba'ooab O' Buh-goo-luh Avatar
            Ba’ooab O’ Buh-goo-luh

            Here you’re you little ba’ooab’i shit prick, get back to us, your god father’s (Ba’ooab and Buh-goo-luh). We want our daily release, you know your daily routine. So get your little ba’ooab’i shit ass here in front of our schlongs, now.

    2. sh'ran Avatar
      sh’ran

      How much more obvious can we make? Geez, we have strong open and hidden allies who will never let us lose syria. We all are in this together, just the blind and dumb don’t see. We will keep creating deceptions, confusions, chaos, set ups, and proxies to safeguard our interests and puppets and to achieve our shitionist goals.
      Some truthers may even question the authenticity of this news and claim it as a set up but who cares about what them few say when our deceptions are falling beautifully in place.

      1. O Avatar
        O

        I believe it. Coz it seems awfully conveniently timed.

        1. O Avatar
          O

          sometime I create names to give the impression that someone reads and answers the stupid shit I say and then I start answering that person and enter in a conversation with him/her out of the same boredom.
          I really need to go make some friends, real ones.

          1. Free Lebanese Avatar
            Free Lebanese

            A coward is somebody using the profile of others to say stupidities because of his weekness and hypocrisy……O is bigger than you big shit…..

  2. Free Lebanese Avatar
    Free Lebanese

    The regime and its proxys are trying to drag the druze community in that dirty war……

  3. 5thDrawer Avatar
    5thDrawer

    “The problem” … which even Jumblatt can’t control … is that someone else won’t like his house stolen and his daughter raped, and will also grab a gun from an idiot to defend his family and shoot the bastard. It is, of course, what many should have done … even knowing they could die … from the beginning. There are, of course, some ‘underground’ people doing just that … who have concentrated on ISIS types so far … but Nusra will begin to feel the same sort of thing when they act like ASSad and go after a family because one joins ‘the opposition’.

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