<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">In Syria, at least 220 people, including 127 civilians, have been killedin raids and suicide bombings in Sweida province.</span></p>''<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:times new roman;color:#222222;mso-fareast-language:en-in"> </span></p>''<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:times new roman;color:#222222;mso-fareast-language:en-in">Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the attackscarried out by the Islamic State terror group hit several areas of the largelygovernment-held southern province. <o:p /></span></p>''<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:times new roman;color:#222222;mso-fareast-language:en-in"> </span></p>''<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:times new roman;color:#222222;mso-fareast-language:en-in">Three suicide attackers set off booby-trapped belts in Sweida city, asother blasts hit villages to the north and east. A fourth suicide explosionagain hit the city later. <o:p /></span></p>''<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:times new roman;color:#222222;mso-fareast-language:en-in"> </span></p>''<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:times new roman;color:#222222;mso-fareast-language:en-in">The Observatory said, it was the deadliest attack in Sweida provincesince the start of the war in 2011 and one of the deadliest ever in thecountry.<o:p /></span></p>''<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:times new roman;color:#222222;mso-fareast-language:en-in"> </span></p>''<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:times new roman;color:#222222;mso-fareast-language:en-in">United Nation's Humanitarian Co-ordinator in Syria, Ali al-Zaataricondemned the bombings, saying all civilians should be protected. <o:p /></span></p>''<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:times new roman;color:#222222;mso-fareast-language:en-in"> </span></p>''<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:times new roman;color:#222222;mso-fareast-language:en-in">The Russian Foreign Ministry said the attacks confirm the need forenergetic and coordinated efforts by the international community to eradicateIS from the Syrian territory. More than 3 lakh 50,000 people have been killedand millions displaced since Syria's war started in 2011.<o:p /></span></p>''<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> </span></p>