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Para evitar una guerra con Israel, Siria entrega el control a los drusos en una disputada región en la frontera israelí
Tras cinco días de sangrientos enfrentamientos y el bombardeo israelí a Damasco del miércoles, el presidente interino de Siria, Ahmad al-Charaa, anunció el traspaso de la responsabilidad del mantenimiento de la seguridad en Sweida (sur) a «facciones locales y jeques drusos», apoyados por Israel.
“Hemos dado prioridad a los intereses de los sirios antes que al caos y la destrucción”, declaró el presidente interino de Siria, Ahmed al-Charaa, en un discurso televisado. “Hemos decidido que las facciones locales y los jeques sabios asuman la responsabilidad de mantener la seguridad en Sweida”, dijo, refiriéndose a “la necesidad de evitar hundirse en otra guerra a gran escala” tras cuatro días de violencia.
“Teníamos dos opciones: guerra abierta con la entidad israelí a costa de nuestro pueblo druso, su seguridad y la estabilidad de Siria y de toda la región, o dar a los ancianos y jeques drusos la oportunidad de entrar en razón y dar prioridad al interés nacional”, explicó.
La minoría religiosa de los drusos ha vuelto al centro de atención tras el conflicto abierto entre combatientes drusos y tribus beduinas sunnitas que empezó en Siria el domingo. A estos enfrentamientos se han sumado los ataques del nuevo gobierno islamista sirio, acusado de marginar las minorías y realizar ejecuciones sumarias de civiles, así como los sucesivos ataques israelíes que el gobierno de Benjamín Netanyahu justifica con la voluntad de proteger a la minoría drusa.
Pero, ¿quiénes son los drusos exactamente? La comunidad cuenta con más de un millón de miembros en Oriente Medio y forma parte de los grupos fundadores de Líbano y Siria -los principales países donde están establecidos-.
Los drusos derivan de una vertiente del islam shiíta que surgió en Egipto a principios del siglo XI. Su fe nace entonces como una rama shiíta durante el reinado del califa al-Ḥākim bi-Amr Allāh, a quien algunos teólogos empezaron a venerar como una figura divina, lo que fue rechazado oficialmente como herejía.
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¿Por qué Israel bombardeó Siria?
La fe drusa se extinguió gradualmente en Egipto, pero sobrevivió en zonas aisladas del Líbano, Siria y en el Golán sirio ocupado por Israel, donde los misioneros habían establecido comunidades importantes.
El domingo estallaron enfrentamientos entre tribus beduinas sunnitas y combatientes drusos, en la provincia de Sweida, tras el secuestro de un verdulero druso.
Las fuerzas gubernamentales sirias, desplegadas desde el martes en la ciudad de Sweida, comenzaron a retirarse el miércoles tras un acuerdo de alto el fuego, después de ser acusadas de combatir junto a tribus beduinas.
Israel salió en defensa de la minoría drusa, en los ocupados Altos del Golán, hay una gran población de drusos-israelíes, y alertó al régimen sirio que se retirara de Sweida, bombardeando Damasco el miércoles para hacer sentir el rigor de su advertencia.
Según el Observatorio Sirio de Derechos Humanos (OSDH), organización con sede en el Reino Unido que cuenta con una amplia red de fuentes en Siria, los enfrentamientos han dejado más de 350 muertos desde el domingo, entre ellos 27 civiles víctimas de “ejecuciones sumarias por parte de miembros de los ministerios de Defensa e Interior”.
En su discurso, Ahmed al-Charaa prometió “hacer rendir cuentas” a los responsables de actos de violencia contra “nuestro pueblo druso, que está bajo la protección y la responsabilidad del Estado”.
“El Estado sirio intervino para poner fin a los enfrentamientos entre grupos armados en Sweda y las regiones vecinas”, declaró el presidente interino.
Al Charaa Acusó a Israel, que había bombardeado Siria alegando actuar en apoyo de los drusos, de haber “recurrido a ataques a gran escala contra instalaciones civiles y gubernamentales para socavar estos esfuerzos, lo que complicó considerablemente la situación y empujó las cosas a una escalada. Salvo por la eficaz intervención de la mediación estadounidense, árabe y turca, que salvó a la región de un destino desconocido”.
Ahmed al-Charaa no especificó qué países árabes participaban en la mediación. El miércoles, el secretario de Estado estadounidense, Marco Rubio, anunció “un acuerdo sobre medidas específicas que pondrán fin a esta preocupante y aterradora situación” en Siria.
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EU official warns ‘impunity’ for Russia would mark ‘historic mistake of huge proportions’
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As President Donald Trump’s administration aims to help broker peace between Russia and Ukraine, a European Union official asserted that Russia must face accountability for its «crimes,» according to a report.
European Commissioner for Democracy, Justice, the Rule of Law and Consumer Protection Michael McGrath warned against allowing «impunity,» opining that it «would be a historic mistake of huge proportions.»
«I don’t think history will judge kindly any effort to wipe the slate clean for Russian crimes in Ukraine,» McGrath said, according to Politico. «They must be held accountable for those crimes and that will be the approach of the European Union in all of these discussions.
«Were we to do so, to allow for impunity for those crimes, we would be sowing the seeds of the next round of aggression and the next invasion,» he noted, according to the outlet. «And I believe that that would be a historic mistake of huge proportions.»
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Left: Russian President Vladimir Putin enters the hall just after his talks with the Hungarian prime minister during his meeting with young scientists at the Kremlin on Nov. 28, 2025 in Moscow, Russia; Right: EU Commissioner for Democracy, Justice, the Rule of Law and Consumer Protection Michael McGrath talks to media about: «Simpler EU digital rules and new digital wallets to save billions for businesses and boost innovation» in the Berlaymont, the EU Commission headquarter on Nov. 19, 2025 in Brussels, Belgium. (Left: Contributor/Getty Images; Right: Thierry Monasse/Getty Images)
«We cannot give up on the rights of the victims of Russian aggression and Russian crimes,» McGrath asserted, according to the outlet. «Millions of lives have been taken or destroyed, and people forcibly removed, and we have ample evidence.»
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President Donald Trump speaks to the press aboard Air Force One en route to Washington, D.C., on Nov. 30, 2025. (Pete Marovich/Getty Images)
Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has expressed gratitude toward the Trump administration.
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky speaks at a press conference with Pedro Sanchez, Spanish prime minister (not pictured), during his official visit to the headquarters of the Spanish government in Palacio de la Moncloa. (Alberto Gardin/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
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«I am grateful to the United States, to President Trump’s team, and to the President personally for the time that is being invested so intensively in defining the steps to end the war,» he noted in part of a post on X.
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The Republican-controlled Indiana House returns to session on Monday to take action on congressional redistricting pushed by President Donald Trump.
And the GOP-dominated state Senate, in a major reversal, will reconvene in one week to «make a final decision on any redistricting proposal sent from the House.»
The proposed new map would create another GOP-leaning congressional district in the solidly Republican Midwestern state.
Indiana is the latest battlefield in the high-stakes redistricting showdown pitting Trump and Republicans versus Democrats to shape the 2026 midterm landscape as the GOP defends its razor-thin House majority.
TRUMP TURNS UP HEAT ON FELLOW REPUBLICANS IN PUSH TO REDRAW CONGRESSIONAL MAPS AHEAD OF MIDTERMS
The Indiana legislature on Monday returns to the Statehouse, seen in a file photo from 2017, to consider a congressional redistricting plan pushed by President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy, File)
State House Speaker Todd Huston announced last week that «House Republicans will gavel in on Monday, Dec. 1, reconvening the 2026 regular session. All legislative business will be considered beginning next week, including redrawing the state’s congressional map.»
Despite pressure from Trump and his political team, Rodric Bray, the Republican leader in the Indiana Senate, announced two weeks ago that there wasn’t enough support in the chamber to move forward with redistricting.
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Trump, in response, repeatedly threatened to back primary challenges against state Republican lawmakers who didn’t support his congressional redistricting push.
«A RINO State Senator, Rodric Bray, who doesn’t care about keeping the Majority in the House in D.C., is the primary problem. Soon, he will have a Primary Problem, as will any other politician who supports him in this stupidity,» Trump warned in a recent social media post.
President Donald Trump, seen pointing as he boards Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, on Sept. 11, 2025, is targeting Indiana Republican lawmakers who are not supportive of the president’s congressional redistricting push. (Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images)
Bray confirmed in a statement last week that the state Senate would return into session to take action on whatever redistricting proposal passes the House.
«The issue of redrawing Indiana’s congressional maps mid-cycle has received a lot of attention and is causing strife here in our state. To resolve this issue, the Senate intends to reconvene as part of the regular 2026 session on Dec. 8,» Bray wrote.
Republicans currently control seven of Indiana’s nine congressional districts, and any new map passed by the GOP supermajority in the legislature would likely shift the state’s 1st Congressional District from blue-leaning to a red-leaning seat.
Trump has been twisting elbows in his attempt to make Indiana the latest Republican-controlled state to change their congressional maps. The president has called state lawmakers and Vice President JD Vance visited the state twice earlier this autumn to discuss redistricting.
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Trump has also taken some jabs at Republican Gov. Mike Braun of Indiana, arguing that the governor «perhaps, is not working the way he should to get the necessary Votes.»
Indiana Gov. Mike Braun, seen speaking during a press conference on Oct. 30, 2025, supports President Donald Trump’s push for congressional redistricting. (Michael Gard/Post-Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
While Trump has called Braun «a good man,» he has warned he «must produce on this, or he will be the only Governor, Republican or Democrat, who didn’t.»
But Braun, pointing to the president, has touted that he is «committed to standing with him on the critical issue of passing fair maps in Indiana to ensure the MAGA agenda is successful in Congress.»
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The push by the president in Indiana is part of a broad effort by Trump’s political team and the GOP to pad the party’s razor-thin House majority ahead of the midterms, when the party in power traditionally faces political headwinds and loses seats.
Trump is aiming to prevent what happened during his first term in the White House when Democrats reclaimed the House majority in the 2018 midterm elections.
Texas, Missouri, North Carolina and Ohio have drawn new maps as part of the president’s push. And Florida and Kansas are also mulling redrawing their maps.
«We must keep the Majority at all costs,» Trump wrote recently.
But two federal judges in Texas delivered a blow to Trump and Republicans, by ruling that the state can’t use the newly drawn map in next year’s elections. The Supreme Court put in place a temporary stay on the ruling, ahead of weighing in on the dispute.
Meanwhile, Democrats are fighting back.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks during an election night press conference at a California Democratic Party office Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025, in Sacramento, Calif. (Godofredo A. Vásquez/AP Photo)
California voters a month ago overwhelmingly passed Proposition 50, a ballot initiative which will temporarily sidetrack the left-leaning state’s nonpartisan redistricting commission and return the power to draw the congressional maps to the Democrat-dominated legislature.
That is expected to result in five more Democratic-leaning congressional districts in California, which would counter the passage earlier this year in Texas of a new map that aims to create up to five right-leaning House seats.
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Illinois and Maryland, two blue states, and Virginia, where Democrats control the legislature, are also taking steps or seriously considering redistricting.
And in a blow to Republicans, a Utah district judge last month rejected a congressional district map drawn up by the state’s GOP-dominated legislature and instead approved an alternate that will create a Democratic-leaning district ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.
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