WASHINGTON — The US envoy for Syria pledged accountability for the US citizen who was killed through the unrest within the nation’s Druze-majority south earlier this month.
US particular envoy for Syria Tom Barrack informed reporters in Washington that the Syrian authorities, led by President Ahmed al-Sharaa, is cooperating with the FBI’s investigation into the demise of Oklahoma resident Hosam Saraya.
“We’ll unravel it,” mentioned Barrack, who can be the US ambassador to Turkey. “The al-Sharaa authorities is cooperating absolutely and has indicated, as we’ve, that we will discover out who’s accountable, and whoever is accountable goes to be punished.”
As Al-Monitor first reported, Saraya’s kinfolk mentioned the 35-year-old was kidnapped by armed males from their household residence within the southern metropolis of Suwayda on July 16. Video appeared to indicate the execution-style capturing of Saraya and 6 of his male relations by gunmen carrying navy fatigues that the household says resembled the uniforms of Syrian authorities forces.
“All they’ve proper now’s footage — social media footage — within the midst of this brawl, so [they are] making an attempt to determine uniforms and what the occasions had been,” mentioned Barrack.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights mentioned greater than 1,000 individuals died within the clashes that pit Druze militiamen towards Sunni Bedouin fighters in Suwayda and the federal government forces who again them. Israel, which has its personal sizable Druze inhabitants, intervened with airstrikes it mentioned had been aimed toward defending the Syrian Druze and conserving its border demilitarized.
A US-brokered ceasefire reached on July 19 is essentially holding.