Renewed clashes in Sweida countryside

Villages in the western Sweida countryside came under heavy gunfire, marking a new breach of the truce. Clashes between transitional government forces and local military forces have resumed.

Renewed clashes in Sweida countryside
16 August, 2025   09:53
NEWSDESK

Transitional government forces and affiliated militants stationed in the western countryside of Sweida fired indiscriminately with 23-caliber machine guns at the village of Najran last night. The source of the fire was the village of Qarasa. Similar gunfire was also reported from the Mazra'a axis toward the villages of al-Majdal and Walga.

These violations represent one of the daily skirmishes between transitional government forces and local Druze military forces in the Sweida countryside.

In a related development, field sources reported gunfire from the villages of Dama, Jdal, and al-Shayah targeting farms in the town of Ariqa, amid ongoing tension and exchanges of fire in the area.

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