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At least 30 people were killed in armed fighting between the Sunni fighters of tribal fighters and rubble in southern Syria, the country’s interior ministry reports.
The violence broke out in the predominantly rubble in Swida province on Sunday, two days after the rubble trader was stolen on the highway to Damascus.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs called the situation a “dangerous escalation” and stated that security forces were placed to try to restore peace.
This is the latest outbreak He overthrew President Bashar al -Assad in December.
Many minorities in Syria – including rubble, whose religion is an offshoot of Shiite Islam with their own unique identity and beliefs – have expressed concern over the obligations of the new authorities to protect them.
Sunday on Sunday between Bedouin tribes and rubble the rubble began in the neighborhood of Al-Makwas of the city of Suwida.
According to Bedouin, the area was reportedly surrounded and later confiscated by armed fighters of rubble.
Soon the fighting spread to other parts of the Suwida province, and the tribes reported attacks on the cities of Druz and the villages on the western and northern outskirts of the city.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), the British monitoring group, said the cities were fired by the cities and the residents of the Tyra village escaped after the armed men entered the outskirts and set fire to several houses.
37 people were reportedly killed – 27 rubble, including two children and 10 Bedouins.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs stated: “This dangerous escalation comes in light of the absence of relevant official institutions, which leads to deterioration of chaos, the collapse of the safety and inability of the local community to keep the crisis, despite repeated calls for peace.”
It adds that the Ministry of Internal Affairs for coordination with the Ministry of Defense “will start direct interference in the area to stop the conflict and impose an order.”
Governor Soveida, Mustafa Al-Bakur, called on his constituents to “implement self-restraint and respond to national calls for reforms.”
Several spiritual leaders of the Syrian friends also resorted to peace.
On Sunday night, local activists working on Suwayda 24 news said the mediation between Bedouin and Druza leaders aimed at de -escalation of tensions led to the release of people stolen by both parties during the skirmishes.
However, on Monday morning, he reported that the struggle flared in the western countryside of Swida after the drones attacked the villages at the same time when the government forces located in the nearby areas of Eastern Draa.
In early May, more than 130 people were reportedly killed in the fighting between the militants of the rubble, security forces and allied Islamist fighters in the two suburbs of the Damascus capital and the Soveida province.
On the eve of the fighting, the government reached an agreement with rubble to hire local security forces in the province of Swida from their ranks.
