Before dawn on July 11, gunmen ambushed a vegetable truck on the Damascus–Suwayda highway, assaulted its Druze driver, and stole his cargo. Within hours, retaliatory kidnappings against Bedouins followed. Within days, more than 100 people were dead and hundreds wounded. But the violence was not simply a cycle of tribal revenge. It was a symptom […] The post Power, Patronage, and the Fight for Suwayda appeared first on levant24 .