Following the ceasefire agreement announced yesterday, Wednesday and hundreds of dead, the Syrian government forces were withdrawn today from the entire Sueida province, where mainly Druzo lives in southern Syria, as the Syrian Observatory said today.
“The Syrian authorities withdrew their military forces from the city of Sueida and from all over the province and developed Druzo fighters,” Ramy Abdel Rahman’s head of the Observatory told the French Agency.
Members of the government forces told a correspondent from the French Agency, who was near the Sueida province that they had been ordered to leave shortly before midnight and that they had completed their withdrawal until dawn.
“The City of Sueida seems empty of any presence of government forces,” the leader of the local website Suwayda 24 Rayan Maarouf told the French Agency, adding that the situation is “devastating, the roads are full of corpses”.
Conflicts between Bedouin and Drussian fighter tribes, which have been strained for decades, broke out on Sunday, with over 350 people losing their lives.
The Syrian government has developed the Tuesday forces in the region with the aim of restoring order and Israel, opposed to any Syrian military presence near its borders and declares that it wants to protect the Druzo community, responded by bombing Damascus and other areas.
US Foreign Ministry spokesman Tami Bruce called on the Syrian government yesterday to leave the conflict area in the southern part of the country in order to divergent tensions with Israel.
The temporary president of Syria, Ahmed al-Sara. He announced over the night that the responsibility for maintaining the security in the suede was transferred to “local factions”.
Source :Skai
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