Clashes flared up again Friday between Druze militiamen and Sunni Bedouin tribes around Sweida in southern Syria. Footage from the Al-Arabiya network showed fires burning on the roadside and a heavy presence of Syrian security forces and other armed men.

The announcement was made by US Envoy to Turkey and Syria Tom Barrack as Druze groups and members of the Bedouin continued to clash in Syria’s southern Sweida province, displacing tens of thousands of