Complex sentence: In the first week of October 60 French gendarmes were dispatched to the Ghouta to apprehend al-Kharrat and his fighters, lodging in the home of the "mukhtar" ("village headman") of al-Mleha.
Split into simpler sentences: In the first week of October, 60 French gendarmes were dispatched to the Ghouta to apprehend al-Kharrat and his fighters. The gendarmes took up lodging in the home of the "mukhtar" ("village headman") of al-Mleha.