DAMASCUS, July 20, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Tribal fighters have been evacuated from Syria's southern city of Sweida and violent clashes have ceased, the country's interior ministry said late Saturday.

"After intensive efforts by the Ministry of Interior to implement the ceasefire agreement, following the deployment of its forces in the northern and western regions of Sweida Governorate, the city of Sweida was evacuated of all tribal fighters, and clashes within the city's neighbourhoods were halted," interior ministry spokesman Noureddine al-Baba said in a post on Telegram.