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Syria Agrees to Cease-Fire in Sweida

Israel agrees to allow Syrian troops limited access to Sweida

Israel has agreed to allow limited access by Syrian forces into the Sweida area of southern Syria for the next two days, an Israeli official said on Friday, after days of bloodshed in the predominantly Druze area that has killed over 300 people.

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Syrian Forces Prepare to Redeploy to Sweida City Despite Israeli Warnings

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Syria Agrees to Cease-Fire in Sweida After Israeli Attack on Damascus

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Bodies and looted homes: Syria's Druze reeling after Sweida bloodshed

After days of bloodshed in Syria's Druze city of Sweida, survivors emerged on Thursday to collect and bury the scores of dead found across the city.

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Syria leader vows to protect Druze after sectarian violence prompts Israeli strikes

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Suwayda tense as Syria reels from sectarian fighting, Israeli attacks

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Israel launches heavy airstrikes in Damascus, vowing to protect Druze

Israel's Defence Minister Israel Katz on Wednesday warned the Syrian government to "leave Druze alone" and that the military would continue to strike Syrian government forces until they pulled back.

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US says 'specific steps' agreed to end Syria violence after Israeli strikes hit Damascus

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Syria tribes clash with Druze fighters near Sweida: combatants, monitor

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'Mass grave': Medics appeal for aid at last working hospital in Syria's Sweida

In the last barely-functional hospital in Sweida, bodies are overflowing from the morgue, staff said, amid violence that has wracked the Druze-majority southern Syrian city for nearly a week."There's no more space in the morgue,

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Head of UN rights office urges accountability for killings in Syria's Sweida

The head of the United Nations human rights office called on Friday for Syria's interim authorities to ensure accountability and justice for killings and rights violations in the southern city of Sweida.

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Saudi Arabia told US that Syrian forces should deploy to Sweida despite Israeli objections, source says

Saudi Arabia told the US that Syrian security forces should be allowed to deploy to the country's restive south despite Israeli objections, a US official told Middle East Eye.

Israel reinforces fence between Golan Heights and Syria following Sweida province violence

The Israeli army continued to build a concrete wall on Friday to enforce the fence area separating the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights from Syria.

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UN refugee agency concerned about impact of Sweida hostilities on aid operations

The United Nations refugee agency expressed concern on Friday about the impact of hostilities in Syria's southern city of Sweida on its aid operations, and urged all sides to allow more humanitarian access.

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After Israel allowed ‘limited entry’ to Sweida, Syria denies plan to redeploy forces in Druze-Sunni clash region

Syria’s interior ministry spokesperson stated on Friday that government forces were not prepared to redeploy to Sweida Province, according to the official news agency