(15 Jul 2025)
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Al Mazraa, Sweida province, Syria – 15 July 2025
1. Various of smoke rising from buildings in amid ongoing clashes
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Loud gunfire and smoke were seen and heard over Sweida in southern Syria on Tuesday, after the defence minister announced a ceasefire following the entry of government forces into a key city in the province.
The announcement came a day after sectarian clashes that killed dozens, and after Israel launched strikes in the area.
The clashes began with a series of tit-for-tat kidnappings and attacks between members of local Sunni Bedouin tribes and Druze armed factions in the southern province, a center of the Druze community.
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz said in a joint statement that Israel had struck to “prevent the Syrian regime from harming” the Druze “and to ensure disarmament in the area adjacent to our borders with Syria.
Syrian government security forces sent to restore order on Monday also clashed with Druze armed groups.
During the day, the Israeli army struck a Syrian government military tank and said it was acting to protect the Druze religious minority.
AP video shot by Ghaith Alsayed
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