ALBAWABA - A Syrian human rights organization revealed on Sunday that the death toll from violence that erupted in the past few days in the south reached over 1,000.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) revealed that more than 1000 people were killed since last Sunday.
The figure includes 336 Druze armed men and "298 civilians from the religious minority group, 194 of whom were "summarily executed by defence and interior ministry personnel".
Nonetheless, the Observatory mentioned that 342 government security personnel and 21 Sunni Bedouin, three of them civilians, were "summarily executed by Druze fighters".
Another 15 government forces were killed in Israeli attacks, it said.
The Syrian Ministry of Interior said in a statement on Saturday evening that all tribal fighters have left the city of Sweida, adding that clashes within the city's neighborhoods have stopped, the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) reported.
Ministry of Interior spokesperson Noureddine Al-Baba added in a statement: "After intensive efforts by the Ministry of Interior to implement the ceasefire agreement, following the deployment of its forces in the northern and western regions of Sweida Governorate, the city of Sweida has been evacuated of all tribal fighters, and clashes within the city's neighborhoods have ceased."
