Convoys of Syrian security forces were seen moving outside of Sweida on Wednesday (July 16) night. Scores of people have been killed this week in violence in and around the predominantly Druze city, pitting fighters from the Druze minority against government security forces and members of Bedouin tribes.

Here is what we know so far about the sectarian violence in Syria's Sweida province and all that has happened since. The fresh wave of violence in Sweida was the biggest since May. The clashes between the Bedouin and the Druze were triggered by the kidnapping of a Druze vegetable merchant,