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Opposition forces take Syria’s Daraa, Sweida as Astana talks set up. Daraa, known as the ‘cradle of the revolution’ is fourth city al-Assad loses in a single week. Daraa-based opposition forces on Saturday said they seized control of the city, the fourth strategic loss for President Bashar al-Assad’s forces in a week.

Daraa was dubbed “the cradle of the revolution” early in Syria’s war as govt repression of protests failed to quell the people’s anger over the detention torture of a group of boys for scribbling anti-Assad graffiti on their school walls in 2011. In April of that year, regime besieged city, a move seen as having militarised revolution. Sweida is heartland Syria’s Druze minority has witnessed anti-govt demonstrations for more than a year, as the cost of living shot up and tens of thousands of Druze men refused to undertake compulsory military service. 
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