Syrian government forces are combatting rebels on the road connecting Damascus and the southeastern, Druze-majority city of Suweideh on Thursday, as rebel groups destroyed
sections of the road with explosives planted in sewage drains.
The
clashes centered in the towns of Buraq and Sura, 53 kilometers northwest
of a-Suweideh, and come a day after rebel shelling killed two and
injured 17 travelling in a convoy near the village of a-Dama, 20
kilometers further southeast on the a-Suweideh-Damascus artery.
Pro-government television channel Sama reported that the attack was “the
work of terrorists aimed at resulting in the largest number of dead and
wounded from civilians.”
Through three years of conflict, the
majority-Druze province of a-Suweideh on Syria’s southern border with
Jordan has witnessed very little violence, despite rebels’ ongoing
struggle to consolidate control of Daraa province to the west. By Syria Direct
Violence explodes in Suweideh

Zaman Alwasl
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