The Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) said on 17 July that “outlaw” armed groups were carrying out massacres against civilians, including Bedouin tribespeople, in the rural areas of Sweida in southern Syria. The agency did not specify casualty figures but described widespread killings in several villages. Separately, accounts from local activists and open-source monitoring groups alleged that Druze factions led by a figure identified as Al-Hijri stormed Bedouin communities, executed residents, burned homes and mosques, and forced survivors to flee. Some of those sources claimed that more than 100 people, among them women and children, had been killed, and circulated an unverified recording in which a fighter declared, “Not a single Bedouin left.” Bloomberg could not independently corroborate the reports, and Syrian authorities and Druze community leaders had not issued public statements by late Thursday. Sweida, a predominantly Druze province that had remained relatively insulated from Syria’s civil conflict, has experienced periodic clashes between Druze militias and Bedouin groups over smuggling routes and territorial control.