The episodes in Druze-majority Suwayda escalated amid kidnappings, various disputes, and absent movement on integrating Druze into state institutions.

The United Nations recently said that the government has thus far failed to bring calm to the area of southern Syria following sectarian clashes last year.

The episodes in Druze-majority Suwayda escalated amid kidnappings, various disputes, and absent movement on integrating Druze into state institutions.

Syrian authorities have said they had begun trying suspects over a wave of deadly violence that tore through the Druze-majority Sweida province last year.