The Syrian government deployed its forces in the Druze-majority city of Sweida, in a bid by the Islamist authorities to extend their power to the area controlled by local armed groups.

Dozens of wounded and dead arrived at a hospital in Al-Mazraa in Syria's southern Sweida province on Tuesday following clashes between local militias, clans and government forces.

Druse militiamen have been fighting with Bedouins in the Sweida Province, and Syrian government forces and the Israeli military are getting involved.

Peace in Syria's Sweida province has been shattered by deadly fighting that started between local Druze and Bedouin groups but has now pulled in the Syrian army and even led to Israeli airstrikes. The violence reportedly began after a young Druze man was attacked,

Syria's defense minister has announced a ceasefire just hours after government forces entered a key city in the volatile Sweida province.

Druze spiritual leaders in Sweida in southern Syria called on armed Druze factions to cooperate with government forces and surrender their weapons to the Syrian government. The IDF reportedly struck the area of Sweida on Tuesday morning,

State-run al-Ikhbariya TV reported that tanks and armoured vehicles were withdrawn from residential areas in an apparent effort to de-escalate.

Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baqaei expressed concern over clashes in Syria and strongly criticized the U.N. Security Council's inaction in the face of the Israeli regime's aggression on Syria,