(Zaman Al Wasl)- As death toll of Sweida's deadly attacks reached 216, local news site assured that the Daesh sucide bombers have come from southern Damascus, in a blow to the Syrian regime who evacuated tens of Daesh fighters to Sweida desert near the Jordanian border.
Sweida 24 said the identity cards of the assailants showed that they have come from the Palestinian Yarmouk Camp, without mentioning if they were Syrian nationals or Palestinians.
Zaman al-Wasl in previous reports revealed that the regime had colluded with Daesh and had facilitated the move of its militants to a territory adjacentto the Druze-dominated province.
Early Wednesday, a series of suicide bombings and attacks struck at a busy vegetable market in Sweida.
The attacks, the worst in recent months, were reminiscent of the horrific violence by the Islamic State group that spread mayhem across the country, already ravaged by the civil war.
Al-Ikhbariya state-run TV showed images from several locations in Sweida province where the bombers blew themselves up, including a vegetable market and a busy square in the provincial capital, also called Sweida.
The rare attacks in Sweida and its capital came amid a regime offensive in the country's south. Government forces are battling an affiliate of the Islamic State group near the frontier with the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights area and the border with Jordan.
The Islamic State group has been largely defeated in Syria and Iraq, but still has pockets of territory it controls in eastern Syria and in the country's south.
Since its offensive in June, Syrian President Bashar Assad's forces have retaken territories controlled by the rebels along the Golan Heights frontier and are now fighting militants in the country's southern tip.
The city of Sweida has largely been spared most of the violence that Syrian cities have witnessed in the years since the conflict started in 2011.
For the southern offensive, government forces redeployed troops from Sweida province last month to attack rebels and IS-affiliate militants in the nearby provinces of Daraa and Quneitra.
The government is now in control of Daraa, but continues to battle the IS-affiliate militants in Quneitra. Zaman Al Wasl, AP
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