Amid violence in Syria, pressure on interim government grows

Amid violence in Syria, pressure on interim government grows

Although the ceasefire in the southern Syrian province of Sweida is currently holding, the conflict between the groups involved is far from resolved. As a precaution, the Syrian government was sending Bedouin-Sunni families out of the area over the weekend, the country's state media outlet SANA reported. Altogether, around 1,500 people were transported out of the province by bus. Violence escalated after conflict broke out between local Druze fi…