The number of deaths from a wave of sectarian violence in Syria passes 100

The war control group said on Thursday after the turmoil spread to new areas, that the number of dead people from the outbreak of sectarian violence in Syria exceeded 100 years.

Violence erupted on Tuesday in the city of Jaramana, after an audio clip was distributed on social media claiming to be from a cleric from the minority of lessons that insult the Prophet Muhammad. The cleric denied this accusation, and the Ministry of Interior in Syria said that its initial results showed that he was not the person in the clip.

However, armed armed armed armed groups began attacking the areas, including jaramana, with large residents of the capital, Damascus. Druze militias responded to force to protect their neighborhoods and sent the government in their special forces to suppress the unrest.

On Wednesday, clashes extended to another city on the southern suburbs of the capital, Ashraf Satnaya. Early on Thursday, violence poured out from the outskirts of Damascus to Suwaida, an area controlled in southern Syria.

The bloodshed raised fears that a country in which religious minorities felt have already been deeply weak because the overthrow of the Assad’s dictatorship in December will break more.

This was the second great outbreak of sectarian violence because the rebel alliance overthrew President Bashar al -Assad and seized power.

This alliance was led by the Islamic Group, Haya Tarir al -Sham, which was once linked to al -Qaeda, and included other Islamic armed groups with more extremist ideologies. Many of these groups have not been placed under the control of the new government, and the new authorities in Syria have shown little ability to restrain them.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a British -based war screen, said that the death toll from three days of clashes rose to 101 by Thursday.

The observatory reported for the first time on Thursday that extremist gunmen killed 35 lessons on the road linking Sweden to Damascus, and five fighters in a village in the Suwaida area.

The observatory said that those who were killed in his Ashraf Satnaya on Wednesday included a former mayor from the region, Hassan Warwar, and his son.

The observatory said that 20 government security forces were also killed in unrest and 10 allied groups.

Druze, which is practicing a religion of Islam, owns a good organization organized militias, based in Suwaida, which was hesitant to integrate into the new army’s new army.

Israel, which has a close relationship with the Israeli Druze, too I entered the battle On Wednesday, air strikes were launched against what it described as “agents” who attacked Syrian civilians.

The new Islamic leaders in Syria struggled to accommodate A complex network of armed groups It operates throughout the country to a national army. Besides the Druze militias, there are armed factions that support the government, who told activists and fighters interviewed this week, and it seems that they seem to be involved in clashes with the Druze.

Abu Hassan, the commander of a militia, said lessons in Suwaida, who is going next to Mass, that thousands of fighters fought in several places on Wednesday between Sweden and Dara, which is the southwest city. He said that the gunmen in lessons were fighting a fighter with the two allies with the government, from among others.

The ruler of the region, which includes Jarama and Ashrafieh Sahnaya, Amer Al -Sheikh, blamed “banned groups” to start the initial violence at a press conference on Wednesday, but he did not specify the groups. Mr. Sheikh did not recognize the presence of pro -government armed factions, saying only that the official government forces had been deployed to protect the two cities.

However, other security officials acknowledged that the government is unable to control all its supporting groups.

“We have the right to maintain our weapons to protect ourselves from these random factions,” said Loubna Bastet, a lesson in Sweden, who said that the attacks continue on Thursday in villages in Sweden countryside, including the Sura.

She added that the government “claims to send all these military reinforcements to protect us, but we do not trust them.”

Despite the sectarian battle lines, the government’s public security forces include lessons and other minorities as well as fighters from the Sunni Muslim majority in the country. Lessons were among the public security forces killed this week.

But despite the promises of totalitarianism from the government, the Syrian minorities remain ready, and they are anxious deepening after a march A wave of sectarian killings The coastal region in Syria, the country’s homeland, struck the country, a group of minorities to which the Assad family belongs.

Reham Morish The reports contributed.