This is John Batchel, a conversation with my colleague Ahmed Shah Rawi of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies

about what we know so far in the development of the chaos of southern Syria, Suwaita province.

This is a war-torn state with no coherence whatsoever.

The Druze associated with the Israeli government and previously associated with the Assad government,

are under attack by the Bedouins, the Bedouin clans that dominate many provinces.

However, the Bedouins are aided in some fashion by the Syrian National Army, which used to be called al-Qaeda.

The mix even gets more difficult to read when you look at the report that the Israelis Air Force has struck at certain tanks, military equipment,

occupied by the Syrian National Army, which is abetting the Bedouins and the attack on the

Druze. And Ahmed puts it all out and doesn't come to a conclusion other than the fact that

we have a state, well, the New York Times says after the Civil War, perhaps there's another name

for it. Looks like chaos, anarchy. Here's Akhman.

Again, as I stated, some of these, some of these militias, Druze militias, were remnants of the

Assad regime, so they still have some of their weapons that they've retained since the fall

of the Assad regime. On your point about the Bedouins, yes, they're closely aligned with the government in

Damascus.

The government in Damascus even facilitated the entry of reinforcements coming from the Darraa

province, which borders Suedeh, which is composed 99% of Sunni Arabs, so there's no Drew's presence

there. So there's no Druze presence there.

So there's some sort of coordination and collaboration on that side.

For the Druze, again, as I stated, they have weapons, they have armored trucks, maybe

not to the extent or maybe not to the level of the Syrian government or the Syrian army,

but they have been capable of defending themselves in the

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