The Syrian government announced on Tuesday a cessation of hostilities in the southern city of Al Sueida and the beginning of the deployment of its troops to assume control of security ,.

“To all the units that operate in the city of Al Sueida, we announce a high total fire after reaching an agreement with the personalities and those responsible for the city,” said Defense Minister Marhaf Abu Qasra.

However, the person responsible warned that in this context his forces will still respond towards the “origin of the fire” if they are attacked and that they will also face any action by groups “apart from the law” within the town, populated by the Drusa minority.

Shortly after the announcement, tanks and military vehicles of the Syrian army, they began to retire from Al Sueida, where they had entered early this morning to impose control of the central authorities and assume the security task so far in the hands of local forces.

Images disseminated by the official Syrian news agency, healthy, show a long row of vehicles of the military institution waiting to return to Damascus to the edge of a road from the region.

The high fire immediately also gave way to the beginning of the assumption of responsibilities by state internal security forces.

“We inform our people in the city of Al Sueda from the beginning of the deployment by the Military Police and the internal security forces in the town. Thus, any violation can be confronted directly by them,” said the head of the Military Police, General of Brigade Ali Al Hasán, in statements collected by healthy.

The security in the city was still in charge of local forces, despite the attempts of the new government established after the overthrow of Bachar al Asad last December for expanding the control of the State to the entire territory and integrating the rest of the armed actors in their ranks.

The transfer of responsibilities is produced following a wave of intense clashes between Drusos and Bedouins initiated last Sunday in Al Sueida and that has left at least 30 dead in several parts of the homonymous province, according to official data.

However, the network of local activists Alsueida24 raised the figure to more than fifty, while the Syrian Human Rights Observatory accounted for at least 102 in its last count.