Death toll in south Syria violence tops 300

More than 300 people have been killed in days of violence in southern Syria’s Sweida province, a war monitor said Wednesday, raising an earlier toll of 248 dead.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that since clashes erupted on Sunday, 69 Druze fighters were killed as well as 40 civilians, 27 of whom in “summary executions… by members of the defence and interior ministries”, while 165 government forces and 18 Bedouin fighters were also killed, along with 10 members of the government’s security forces in Israeli strikes.