Members of local forces in al-Suwaidaa countryside were killed and injured during clash against unidentified gunmen in the western countryside of the province
Al-Suwaidaa Province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: Gunfire was heard in the area between the villages of Najran Qarasa in the western countryside of al-Suwaidaa yesterday night, and the Syrian Observatory learned that the shooting was caused by an attempt by unknown gunmen to infiltrate into both villages, where an exchange of gunfire took place with the local gunmen loyal to the regime forces, which killed one of the local gunmen and injured another, and this operation came about 8 weeks after the deadliest and most violent attack in al-Suwaidaa Province, which was carried out by the “Islamic State” organization on the 25th of July 2018, where it targeted al-Suwaidaa city and populated villages on the contact line with Rif Dimashq which caused the execution and death of at least 258 people including 142 civilians, including 38 children and women.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published in the 13th of September that the the body of a child under the age of eighteen was found dead in al-Suwaidaa city, and in the details monitored by the Observatory Syrian: the body of the child was found with a gunshot to the head near the military establishment in al-Suwaidaa city, but no information about the circumstances of the incident yet, where resentment prevails in the city against the backdrop of the recent insecurity.
This incident comes 12 days after residents of al-Suwaidaa city found a head of a person without his body, where the head was cut and thrown in the city, and in the details obtained by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the people in al-Suwaidaa city found the head of a person without his corpse cut and thrown in the city, and in the details obtained by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: citizens found the head of a person beheaded and separated from his body but without finding the body, this happened this morning, the 29th of August 2018, the local sources confirmed that the head which was put in the courtyard of a mosque in al-Moqawwas neighborhood in al-Suwaidaa city; believed to belong to one of the abducted people of the tribesmen living in the countryside of al-Suwaidaa, who was abducted a while ago in the western countryside of al-Suwaidaa, which sparked tension in al-Suwaidaa city where this is the first incident of its kind in the province, and what mad the people more angry was the fact that the one who placed the head in the courtyard of the mosque had written phrases that encourage the “hatred and fighting” according to the local sources.