The death toll from ongoing clashes and mutual shelling in Sweida province, southern Syria, has risen to 89, with dozens more injured, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights on Monday.

The fighting, which began on Sunday, involves Druze armed groups and Bedouin tribesmen backed by elements from Syria’s Ministries of Defense and Interior, concentrated in the western part of the province.

The Observatory reported that the most intense clashes erupted Monday morning, after armed groups from Bedouin tribes, in coordination with government forces, launched an attack from eastern rural Daraa, targeting several villages in western Sweida.

This wave of violence marks one of the most serious escalations in the province in recent years, raising concerns about broader instability and the deterioration of civil peace in the region.