Raids and suicide bombings carried out by Islamic State in Syrias southern Sweida province have killed 156 people, including 62 civilians, a war monitor said on Wednesday.
State television said the army was targeting IS in the provinces east, and state news agency SANA reported Army units blocked an IS attack on a number of villages in northeastern Sweida, killing a large number of the jihadists.
Despite pro-government forces ousting the group from urban centres in eastern Syria last year, sur... [see source for more information]