Syria is deeply divided as it tries to emerge from decades of dictatorship and nearly 14 years of civil war.
Jihad against the infidel Druze
Clashes have on several occasions broken out between forces loyal to the government and Druze fighters since the fall of President Bashar Assad in early December in a lightning rebel offensive led by Sunni Islamist insurgent groups, but this week’s fighting has escalated to new levels of violence.
Another insufferable crap report from AP, that portrays Syrias Al Qaeda thugs as a legitimate government.

Druze reject Suwayda roadmap: “The Higher Legal Committee in Suwayda, considered the contents of the Syrian Foreign Ministry’s statement to be blatantly contradictory:
“The statement referred to the invitation of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria, but then went on to affirm that accountability will take place according to Syrian law. We see this contradiction as stripping the international investigation of its meaning, since it is inconceivable that the accused could at the same time be the judge.
International justice is based on independence and impartiality, and it cannot be reduced to local channels that long ago lost any legitimacy or trust.” In the second point of its statement, the Committee referred to the denial of responsibility: “The statement tried to portray the Syrian government as a neutral party seeking reconciliation, while in reality the government and its security and military apparatuses were direct partners in massacres and violations that affected thousands of civilians, between the killed, the missing, and the kidnapped. Denial of responsibility does not open the path to reconciliation but entrenches the policy of impunity.” Continue reading Syria: Druze Reject Islamic Gov’t Rule