Bedouin Civilians Evacuate Syria's Sweida
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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.
Syria's armed Bedouin clans announced Sunday they had withdrawn from the Druze-majority city of Sweida following weeklong clashes and a U.S.-brokered ceasefire, as humanitarian aid convoys started to enter the battered southern city.
Syria's new government sent troops to quell fighting between the Druze religious minority and Sunni Muslim tribes. Then Israel intervened, bombing Damascus.
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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.
Fighting in Syria's Sweida "halted" on Sunday, the government said, after the southern city was recaptured by Druze fighters and state forces redeployed to the region where more than 900