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Renewed sectarian clashes in south Syria kill four

Druze residents of the Israel-annexed Golan Hights participate in a blood drive in Masaadah village, for the benefit of members of their community in Syria's southertn Sweida, on July 29, 2025. [AFP]

Renewed sectarian clashes in southern Syria's Druze-majority Sweida province killed at least four people on Sunday, a war monitor said, in the first deadly incident since a ceasefire last month.

The province witnessed deadly clashes between Druze fighters and Sunni Bedouins in July that drew the intervention of government forces and tribal fighters who came to support the Bedouins.

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