Bedouin civilians leave Syria's Sweida
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Syrian government starts evacuating Bedouin families from Sweida in a bid to end weeklong clashes
The Syrian government has begun evacuating Bedouin families from Sweida after over a week of violent clashes between Druze militias and Bedouin fighters.
BEIRUT (AP) — A U.S. envoy doubled down on Washington’s support for Syria’s new government, saying Monday there is “no Plan B” to working with it to unite the country still reeling from years of civil war and wracked by new sectarian violence.
Eyewitness video released on Sunday (July 20) appears to show bodies, some of them covered or bagged, on the national hospital grounds in the predominantly Druze city of Sweida, following violence in Syria's southern province.
The situation in the city of Sweida is reportedly under control after days of deadly violence between Druze factions and Sunni Muslim Bedouins, according to the state-run Syrian news agency SANA, citing the Interior Ministry.
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Al-Monitor on MSNIn Syria's Sweida, bodies wait to be identified at overwhelmed hospital
At the main hospital in south Syria's Sweida city, dozens of bodies are still waiting to be identified as the death count of days of sectarian clashes continues to rise."We have handed 361 bodies over to family members,
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Syrian security forces are preparing to redeploy to the Druze-majority Sweida city to quell fighting with Bedouin tribes, a Syrian interior ministry spokesperson said on Friday, further straining a fragile truce in Syria's south.
Syria's southern city of Sweida witnesses a fragile ceasefire after deadly battles between Druze militiamen and Bedouin fighters. The conflict displaced over 128,000 people. While evacuation efforts are underway,
Israel Strikes Syrian Army HQ in Damascus as Fighting Rages in Sweida | Vantage with Palki Sharma | N18G Israel launched airstrikes on the Syrian military headquarters in Damascus days after warning the Syrian government to halt its crackdown on the Druze minority.