SWEIDA, Syria Syrian government security forces stand atop an earth barrier that they created as a buffer during their deployment in Busra al-Harir in Syria's southern Daraa province on July 21, 2025. Syrian authorities evacuated Bedouin families from the Druze-majority city of Sweida on Monday, after a ceasefire in the southern province halted a week of sectarian bloodshed that a monitor said killed more than 1,260 people. The violence, which followed massacres of Alawites in March and clashes