More than 220 dead in IS attacks on Syria's Sweida: monitor

The death toll from raids and suicide bombings carried out today by the Islamic State group in Syria's southern Sweida province has risen to over 220 people, a war monitor.

"The toll from the attacks increased to at least 221 dead, 127 of them civilians," Rami Abdel Rahman of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights told AFP.