AMMAN (Reuters) – Dozens of demonstrators indignant over worsening economic conditions in Syria stormed the governor’s office within the southern city of Sweida on Sunday and set fire to parts of the constructing amid a heavy exchange of gunfire, residents and witnesses said.
Earlier, greater than 200 people had gathereed across the constructing within the centre of the Druze-majority city chanting slogans calling for the overthrow of Syrian President Bashar Assad, they said, amid spiralling prices and economic hardship.
(Reporting by Suleiman Al-Khalidi; Editing by Gareth Jones)
Copyright 2022 Thomson Reuters.
Political Cartoons on World Leaders
