Druze, Syria and Sweida
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One elderly man had been shot in the head in his living room. Another in his bedroom. The body of a woman lay in the street. 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.
Israel struck Damascus as Sweida faces deadly sectarian clashes between Druze, Sunni Bedouins and government forces.
DAMASCUS -- The death toll from this week's deadly clashes in southern Syria's Sweida province has risen to nearly 600, as tensions continued Thursday amid an Israeli airstrike on the outskirts of the provincial capital of Sweida, state-run media and a war monitor reported.
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Israel has struck military tanks in southern Syria, where government forces and Bedouin tribes clash with Druze militias.
Israel says it's trying to protect the Druze community in south-west Syria, where there have been deadly sectarian clashes.