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Bloodshed in Syria's Sweida left at least 321 people dead, human rights group says

AL-Monitor
Jul 18, 2025
An armed Syrian Bedouin fighter walks along a road, as they launch a new offensive in Syria's Sweida province against Druze fighters, a Bedouin military commander told Reuters on Thursday, despite a truce that had been announced the previous evening to end days of bloody fighting, in Deraa, Syria July 17, 2025. REUTERS/Khalil Ashawi
An armed Syrian Bedouin fighter walks along a road, as they launch a new offensive in Syria's Sweida province against Druze fighters, a Bedouin military commander told Reuters on Thursday, despite a truce that had been announced the previous evening to end days of bloody fighting, in Deraa, Syria July 17, 2025. REUTERS/Khalil Ashawi — Khalil Ashawi

(Reuters) -Bloodshed in Sweida left at least 321 people dead, the Syrian Network for Human Rights said on Friday, in a new toll.

A Syrian minister said that the government has recovered 87 bodies, but he did not indicate if it was the entire toll from recent violence between Bedouin tribes and the Druze minority in and around the city in the south of the country.

(Reporting by Maya Gebeily, Writing by Ahmed Elimam, Editing by Philippa Fletcher)