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A Trinidad and Tobago-based non-profit has issued an urgent plea to the US Congress, warning of what it calls a co-ordinated attempt to wipe out the Druze community in Syria.

In a letter addressed to members of the US Congressional Foreign Relations Committees, Nicholas Shane Jagdeo, executive director of the Understanding Israel Foundation, urged immediate US action to stop what he described as a genocide in progress.

“The Druze are being targeted in an organised campaign of mass violence,” Jagdeo wrote, referencing reports of killings, abductions, and village burnings carried out in recent days by jihadist groups such as Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and ISIS.