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Syria interior ministry says new ceasefire agreed in Druze-majority Sweida

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Syria said a new ceasefire was reached Wednesday in Sweida, a day after an earlier truce collapsed amid days of violence that have killed more than 300, according to a monitor.

“An agreement was reached for a ceasefire in Sweida and the deployment of security checkpoints in the city,” an unidentified interior ministry source said in a statement carried by state news agency SANA.

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