Protests Continue in Southern Syrian City

Anti-Syrian government violence spread on Saturday in the heartland of the country's Druze minority, a day after the assassination of a prominent anti-government cleric in explosions that also killed at least 25 others, activists and pro-government media said. Supporters of Sheikh Wahid Balous, who was the leader of a powerful Druze militia, blamed the government for the twin car bombings that killed him in southwestern Sweida province, an area that had largely stayed on the sidelines...

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