11 civilians, security forces killed as fresh crisis erupts near Damascus

Eleven radical person been killed successful clashes successful a Damascus suburb, arsenic equipped groups attacked civilians and information forces, Syria’s authoritative SANA quality bureau reported connected Wednesday.

Since precocious Tuesday, equipped groups person been firing connected civilian and nationalist information vehicles connected the roads, portion different assailants attacked a checkpoint successful Sahnaya city, southbound of the capital, SANA reported.

Residents told dpa that instrumentality guns and rocket-propelled grenades had caused harm to homes and cars, and near galore residents frightened for their safety.

Security forces had precocious to the centre of Sahnaya amid dense gunfire to scope Druze-dominated neighbourhoods successful the city, 1 nonmigratory said.

The clashes successful Sahnaya came 1 time aft unit erupted successful the municipality of Jaramana, besides adjacent Damascus, sparked by an audio signaling of a idiosyncratic insulting Muslim prophet Mohammed.

At slightest 17 were killed successful the Jaramana clashes, according to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

The signaling was attributed to a subordinate of the Druze community, sparking clashes betwixt members of the Druze assemblage and different groups.

The Interior Ministry connected Tuesday said they are inactive moving to place the idiosyncratic speaking successful the recording.

A connection from the Druze assemblage successful Jaramana said the signaling was fabricated to incite sedition.

Since the overthrow of long-time ruler Bashar al-Assad successful December, Syria’s caller Islamist enactment has called for unity and promised inclusivity, but deadly unit has repeatedly breached out.

In March, clashes erupted betwixt Syrian information forces nether the country’s caller authorities and gunmen loyal to al-Assad successful Syria’s occidental coastal region.