Calm returns to the provinces of the Syrian South with the continuation of the Russian – American – Jordanian agreement

The calm returned to prevail the areas of the Syrian South, within the American-Russian-Jordanian agreement, which was put in effect on the 9th of July 2017, in which the SOHR documented several violations yesterday in Daraa, represented by rocket shelling by the regime forces targeted areas in Daraa city and Al-Gharya town in its eastern countryside, in addition to the death of a person as a result of targeting by the regime forces by heavy machineguns to areas in Da’el town in the middile section of Daraa countryside.

It is noteworthy that the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published on the 9th of July 2017, that the regional-international agreement went into effect in three provinces of southern Syria, namely Daraa, Al-Quneitra and Al-Suwaidaa, at 12 pm today, the 9th of July 2017. The SOHR has observed so far that calm is prevailing the provinces of southern Syria and no violations of the truce have been reported so far although the few moments that preceded its implementation witnessed the firing of several shells by the regime forces on faction-controlled areas in Daraa but no casualties have been reported so far.

 

This American-Russian-Jordanian agreement that includes three provinces of southern Syria came after violent battles during the last few weeks between the factions active there and the regime forces and their allied militiamen. where in al-Suwaidaa province there are Jaysh al-Asha’er, Ahmad al-Abdu Forces and Jaysh Usud al-Sharqiyyah, while the southern factions which supported by regional and international parties in Daraa Province, while in Al-Quneitra Province there are Jabhat Thowwar Syria, al-Ezz Brigades and Al-Furqan Brigades, while in Yarmouk Basin area in the western countryside of Daraa is controlled by Jaysh Khalid Ibn al-Walid who swore allegiance to the “Islamic State” Organization.