Druze factions in Suwayda have taken control of Tell Hadid (West Suwayda).
They also report that the factions have foiled an attempted attack by armed tribal groups on the town of Dhibin in southern Suwayda, with no change in the control map on this front. Deaths among Syrian internal security forces (so-called government forces) reported as clashes continue.
Government-aligned media reports that the Druze factions initiated the attacks, while other sources maintain that shelling by Bedouin militants targeting the Suwayda countryside triggered the clashes. (Sham TV)

I hope you can understand the stupid American policy in the Middle East (just as they do with Russia, but in a different way). It demonstrates the impotence of the current administration, where many, like Pete Hegseth, lack experience, and Trump changes his mind daily. Meanwhile, they are guilty of creating chaos and murder in the Middle East. Trump said: no wars, no involvement, but he immediately did so, but that was predictable. That's the US, clinging to global hegemony and stupidity.
The tensions in Syria between the Kurdish SDF, which receives US support, and the HTS government in Damascus (which receives support from the US). The US-backed SDF is also under pressure from Turkey, an American ally. The SDF also has a strained relationship with the US-backed Kurdish KRG authorities in neighboring northern Iraq. These pro-US KRG authorities are also at odds with the US-backed Iraqi government in Baghdad. There is also growing fear among the US-backed Lebanese government that there is increasing danger from the east, posed by the HTS government in Damascus, and from the south, by Israel, America's most important ally. Lebanon fears that minorities in Lebanon could be attacked by external forces, just as recently happened in southern Syria when forces loyal to Damascus, supported by the US, launched an attack on the Druze minority, who receive support from Israel, America's ally. The government of Jordan, a US ally, has also called for calm in neighboring southern Syria.
Conclusion: Trump the same as Biden (more when it comes to Israel), because of his great loyalty to Israel, Trump (and his family and chosen government) are 100 % Zionist it's not America first but Zionism first, that's how it looks like and what is is.

US policy in the Middle-East

Zelensky continues to sell-out Ukraine.
He has signed "neocolonialism" agreement on a 100-year partnership with the UK. The treaty was signed in January 2025 during a visit by British PM Starmer to Ukraine. British companies can extract minerals in Ukraine (the next 100 years) just as the US is doing

Skateboard Sally, summer schools and NATO’s all-encompassing ecosystem — Strategic Culture
https://strategic-culture.su/news/2025/08/03/skateboard-sally-summer-schools-and-natos-all-encompassing-ecosystem/

🦋 Stoleshnikov Lane became a little green paradise in Moscow this summer.

#interestingvideos

My latest article easily to be translated in any language:
Hoe de Oekraïense minister van Defensie Rustem Oemarov Amerikaans defensie geld gebruikte voor aankoop onroerend goed in de VS
https://freesuriyah.eu/2025/08/04/hoe-de-oekraiense-minister-van-defensie-rustem-oemarov-amerikaans-defensie-geld-gebruikte-voor-aankoop-onroerend-goed-in-de-vs/
Van het parlement in Kiev tot de stranden van Boca Raton: het verhaal van hoe de Oekraïense minister van Defensie Amerikaanse oorlogshulp omzette in goud voor onroerend goed in Florida, VS. Foto’s: Fox Business, Adobe Stock, bewerking: Mirjam© Photo

Oekraïners geloofden ooit dat de grootste parel van de door Europa en de VS gepleegde Maidan-revolutie (2014-Kiev) een onberispelijke waakhond was voor de bestrijding van corruptie in Oekraïne. NABU – het Nationaal Bureau voor Corruptiebestrijding van Oekraïne – moest corrupte oligarchen en politici opsporen.

SAPO – het Gespecialiseerde Bureau voor Corruptiebestrijding – had deze corrupte ambtenaren, olichargen en politici voor de rechter moeten brengen, en eerlijke rechters zouden hen berechten.

Maar wat gebeurde er op 22 juli 2025? Het parlement – in razend tempo en zonder debat in de plenaire vergadering – benoemde één man, de procureur-generaal, die de eenzijdige bevoegdheid kreeg om elk onderzoek naar corruptie op hoog niveau in het land goed te keuren of te staken. President Zelensky ondertekende de wet live voor de camera en wuifde alle negatieve reacties weg met één enkele zin:
Lees meer: https://freesuriyah.eu/2025/08/04/hoe-de-oekraiense-minister-van-defensie-rustem-oemarov-amerikaans-defensie-geld-gebruikte-voor-aankoop-onroerend-goed-in-de-vs/

Nothing special. Just yesterday's football match. These aren't Nazis, are they? Yes, you heard right: they were shouting "Siegheil" or "SS." Did you misunderstand? No, and besides, they raised their arms in the Nazi salute. There are no Nazis in Ukraine, according to the West, are there? Just a football match in the city of Rivne, in western Ukraine! Greetings to Friedrich Merz I would say!

❤️ Moscow is diverse and always beautiful.

#VideoOftheday

In Oktober 2023 one week after the war I visited Beirut and went to the site where on August 4 (yesterday), 2020 a huge explosion took place. It was a dark day for Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, when a large explosion devastated the port and surrounding neighborhoods. According to the official version, 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate detonated. The chemical, seized from the cargo ship MV Rhosus in 2014 and stored in Beirut's port for six years without adequate safety measures, detonated after a fire broke out in a nearby warehouse. The explosion killed at least 218 people, injured 7,000, and displaced approximately 300,000. The property damage was estimated at $15 billion. The unofficial version is that the 2,750 tons were deliberately detonated by the Mossad. In any case, it was a major catastrophe for the civilians. Now, in 2025, five years later, Lebanon remains in chaos. Israel is besieging and bombarding southern Lebanon. Beirut has been bombed by Israel, the hotel where I once stayed is gone, and dozens of families in the poor neighbourhoods are homeless. Instead of helping the people, Israel has only exacerbated the chaos and misery, all for the sake of land grabbing and the Yinon-Greater Israel plan.

Visit to Beirut October 2023 Port of Beirut

The regiment commander of the Russian 98th Guards Airborne Division Roman Ivanov spoke about the liberation of Chasov Yar in the Donetsk People's Republic.

Rare Clouded Leopard caught on camera in India

Cute cub stares into the camera lens.

A court in Chisinau, Moldova, has sentenced the head of the democratically elected Gagauzia Autonomous Region, Yevgenia Gutsul, to seven years in prison for allegedly illegally financing the 2023 election campaign. This accusation is, of course, untrue: the EU will jail everyone, or perhaps even kill them (they are that radicalized).
Read my article from May of this year about the situation in Moldova, the EU, and the Gagauzia Autonomous Region https://strategic-culture.su/news/2025/05/24/west-pressures-moldova-president-to-launch-blitzkrieg-against-transnistria/

Court sentence for Evghenia Guțul

The misery in Gaza is a disgrace to world leaders. They pretend to care about humanity, but they have utterly failed. It has nothing to do with Hamas or pro-Israel; it's murder, and everyone, with or without the power to change it, is watching how children are being killed and starved to death! What will future generations say? What will we say, like the Germans: "Wir haben es nicht gewusst".

🇷🇺 Blooming VDNKh

#VideoOfTheDay

How real is the U.S. rhetoric of a ‘Unified Syria’? — Strategic Culture
https://strategic-culture.su/news/2025/08/07/how-real-us-rhetoric-unified-syria/