{"id":31537,"date":"2025-07-16T17:31:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T09:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/multimetro.hk\/plus\/2025\/07\/16\/clashes-resume-in-syrias-druze-city-of-sweida-israel-vows-more-strikes\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T17:31:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T09:31:00","slug":"clashes-resume-in-syrias-druze-city-of-sweida-israel-vows-more-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multimetro.hk\/plus\/2025\/07\/16\/clashes-resume-in-syrias-druze-city-of-sweida-israel-vows-more-strikes\/","title":{"rendered":"Clashes resume in Syria&#8217;s Druze city of Sweida, Israel vows more strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Clashes between Syrian government troops and local Druze fighters resumed in the southern Druze city of Sweida early on Wednesday, collapsing a ceasefire announced just hours earlier that aimed to put an end to days of deadly sectarian bloodshed.<br \/>The outbreak of violence in the predominantly Druze province in southern Syria has highlighted frictions among Syria&#8217;s diverse communities, with minorities feeling deep distrust towards the Islamist-led government now in power.<br \/>Syrian troops were dispatched to the province on Monday to quell fighting between Druze fighters and Bedouin armed men but ended up clashing with the Druze militias. The fighting drew in Israel, which carried out air strikes on government forces on Monday and Tuesday under the aim of protecting the Druze.<br \/>A ceasefire announced by Syria&#8217;s defence ministry on Tuesday night was short-lived.<br \/>Local news outlet Sweida24 said the city of Sweida and nearby villages were coming under heavy artillery and mortar fire early on Wednesday. Syria&#8217;s defence ministry, in a statement carried by state news agency SANA, blamed outlaw groups in Sweida for breaching the truce.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clashes between Syrian government troops and local Druze fighters resumed in the southern Druze city of Sweida early on Wednesday, collapsing a ceasefire announced just hours earlier that aimed to put an end to days of deadly sectarian bloodshed.The outbreak of violence in the predominantly Druze province in southern Syria has highlighted frictions among Syria&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Clashes resume in Syria&#039;s Druze city of Sweida, Israel vows more strikes - 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