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    As-Suwayda (Arabic: ٱلسُّوَيْدَاء / ALA-LC romanization: as-Suwaydāʾ), also spelled Sweida, is a mainly Druze city located in southwestern Syria, close...
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    As-Suwayda or Al-Suwayda Governorate (Arabic: مُحافظة السويداء / ALA-LC: Muḥāfaẓat as-Suwaydā’) is one of the fourteen governorates (provinces) of Syria...
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    as-Suwayda District (Arabic: منطقة السويداء, romanized: manṭiqat as-Suwaydā’) is a district of the as-Suwayda Governorate in southern Syria. The administrative...
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    The 2018 As-Suwayda attacks were a string of suicide bombings and gun attacks that took place in and around As-Suwayda, Syria on 25 July, killing at least...
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  • The As-Suwayda offensive (August–November 2018) began on 6 August 2018, in rural areas of the Suwayda Governorate in southeast Syria after the Islamic...
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    The As-Suwayda offensive (June 2018) began on 7 June in the rural parts of the Suwayda Governorate in southeastern Syria, after an evacuation deal was...
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  • village in the as-Suwayda Governorate in southwestern Syria. It is situated in the southern Lajah plateau, northwest of the city of as-Suwayda. Harran had...
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  • escalating economic hardships erupted in the Druze majority city of Al-Suwayda, initially drawing hundreds of participants. These protests, which quickly...
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    militia group in the Syrian civil war. The group mainly operated in the Suwayda, Deraa, Damascus and other regions where the Druze are concentrated and...
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    Al-Suwayda As-Suwayda Governorate is one of Syria's 14 governorates (provinces). It has an area of 5,550 km2. Its capital and major town is As-Suwayda....
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    List of cities in Syria (category CS1 maint: archived copy as title)
    Al-Suwayda Homs Tartus Latakia Hama Idlib Aleppo Raqqa Deir ez-Zor Al-Hasakah Sixty-four of the 65 districts of Syria have a city that serves as the...
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    lit. 'Mountain of the Druze'), is an elevated volcanic region in the As-Suwayda Governorate of southern Syria. Most of the inhabitants of this region...
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    al-Mazraa on 2–3 August 1925, and the battles of Salkhad, al-Musayfirah and Suwayda. France sent thousands of troops from Morocco and Senegal, leading the...
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  • SOHR reported that Israeli strikes hit Syrian Army radar positions in As-Suwayda Governorate and Daraa Governorate in southern Syria. In a statement, Syria's...
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  • Baaqlin in the Chouf, while others settled in Hasbaya in Wadi al-Taym and Suwayda in the Hauran. The origins of the Alam al-Din family are uncertain. The...
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    Dimashq District and parts of Al-Zabadani District Shahba Salkhad Al-Suwayda As-Suwayda District (3 sub-districts) Salkhad District (5 sub-districts) Shahba...
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    The Sheikh al-Karama Forces was an armed group based in the As-Suwayda Governorate in southern eastern Syria, composed of Druze locals, the group was led...
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  • Al-Suwayda al-Gharbiya (Arabic: السويدة الغربية) is a Syrian village located in the Subdistrict of the Hama District in the Hama Governorate. According...
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    Al-Safa (Syria) (redirect from As Safa)
    the Druze through history as a refuge in the years of war. The whole region currently lies within As-Suwayda Governorate, as the governorate's borders...
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    The Daraa and As-Suwayda offensive (June 2015) (titled "The battle of the crushing of the tyrants" by the Southern Front) was launched in eastern Daraa...
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    Islamic State (category Organisations designated as terrorist by Australia)
    The Islamic State (IS), also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and by its Arabic acronym...
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    2015-11-14. "Disaster which killed 224 people caused by 'external impact on plane' as it emerges Metrojet airline had not paid employees for two months". The Daily...
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  • is a Syrian football club based in As-Suwayda. It was founded in 1972. They play their home games at the As-Suwayda Stadium. "العربي - Al-Arabi" (in Arabic)...
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    and Golan Heights to the west, Rif Dimashq Governorate to the north and As-Suwayda Governorate to the east. The governorate has a population of 998,000 (2010...
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  • Issam Zahreddine (category People from as-Suwayda Governorate)
    rural village of Tarba in the As-Suwayda Governorate in 1961. A member of the Druze religious community, he was commissioned as an officer in the Airborne...
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  • Dimashq was allocated 19 seats: Daraa Province was allocated 10 seats: As-Suwayda Governorate was allocated 6 seats: Homs Province was allocated 23 seats:...
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  • militant and the fifth and current caliph of the Islamic State. He was named as caliph on 3 August 2023, in an audio message by the spokesperson of IS, Abu...
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    Jumana Murad (category People from as-Suwayda)
    نواف فهد مراد; born on 1 April 1973 in As-Suwayda) is a Syrian actress and producer. Murad born in As-Suwayda to Durzi family, she studied English literature...
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  • Umm Haratayn, Hama, in the Hama Governorate Umm Haratayn, al-Suwayda, in the al-Suwayda Governorate This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct...
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  • (Sep–Dec) NW Syria (Oct 17–Feb 18) Abu Kamal W Iraq 2018 As-Suwayda (Jun) S Syria As-Suwayda (Aug–Nov) 2019 Hajin Baghuz Fawqani Barisha raid 2020 Chinagodrar...
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