Syria's armed Bedouin clans on Sunday announced their withdrawal from the Druze-majority city of Sweida, following over a week of intense clashes and a US-brokered ceasefire. This development allowed humanitarian aid convoys to begin entering the battered southern city.

The fighting between militias of the Druze religious minority and Sunni Muslim clans resulted in hundreds of deaths and threatened to destabilise Syria's already fragile post-war transition. Israel also launched dozens of airstrikes in the Druze-majority Sweida province, targeting government forces that had effectively sided with the Bedouins. The clashes also triggered a series of targeted sectarian attacks against the Druze community, which were subsequently met with revenge attacks against the Bedouins.

A series of tit-for-tat kidnappings initially sparked the clashes in various towns and villages within the province, which later spread to the city itself. Government forces were redeployed to halt renewed fighting that erupted on Thursday, before withdrawing again.