The Latest Breaking News from Sweida

Armed Bedouin clans in Syria have withdrawn from the southern city of Sweida after over a week of deadly clashes

More than 150 people also wounded, some critically, as some witnesses say Israeli military shot at crowd

Syrian interior ministry forces began deploying in Sweida on Saturday under a US-brokered deal intended to avert further Israeli military intervention in the Druze-majority province.

Syria’s interior ministry spokesperson said earlier on Saturday that internal security forces had begun deploying in Sweida

Gaza’s civil defence agency said ‘Israeli gunfire’ had killed 22 people at one site and four at another

Division between minority populations drag Syria further into cycle of violence and attracts Israeli opportunism

The agreement comes after intense clashes displaced tens of thousands of people and contributed to a worsening humanitarian crisis in a region still recovering from over a decade of brutal civil war.

In the last barely-functional hospital in Sweida, bodies are overflowing from the morgue, staff said, amid violence that has wracked the Druze-majority southern Syrian city for nearly a week.

Several days of bitter sectarian fighting in the south of Syria has brought the fledgling government in Damascus dangerously close to direct conflict with Israel, after Israeli warplanes launched strikes against government buildings in the Syrian capital, Damascus, on July 16.