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Fighting renews between Bedouin and Druze at entrance to Sweida
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleDAMASCUS, Syria — Renewed clashes erupt between Bedouin tribal factions and Druze fighters at the entrance to Syria’s southern city of Sweida, an AFP correspondent and a war monitoring organization say.
About 200 tribal fighters using machine guns and shells clash with armed Druze men from the city, the AFP correspondent says, while the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also reports fighting and “shelling on neighbourhoods in Sweida city.”
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