Syrian forces deployed in Jaramana to end unrest
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Syrian forces deployed in Jaramana to end unrest

Al Jazeera  

Syria has deployed security forces in Jaramana, a suburb of Damascus, to restore order after a dispute at a checkpoint led to the killing of a Syrian security officer and the injury of another by a militia linked to Bashar al-Assad’s former regime. “Our forces have begun deploying in Jaramana after those involved in the assassination of Ahmed Al-Khatib, a Defence Ministry employee, refused to surrender,” Lieutenant Colonel Hussam al-Tahan told the state-run Syrian Arab News Agency. Israeli military order Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said on Saturday that orders had been given to the Israeli army to “prepare to defend” Jaramana’s Druze population. Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said Jaramana was “under attack by the forces of the Syrian regime” and Israel is “committed to our Druze brothers in Israel to do everything to prevent harm to their Druze brothers in Syria”. Lebanese Druze leader Walid Jumblatt called on Syria’s Druze community to remain “vigilant against Israel’s schemes in Syria” at a news conference in Beirut on Sunday.

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