Deteriorating security in Daraa: 400 attacks and assassination attempts in ten months leave hundreds dead or injured

Daraa Province – Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: Syrian Observatory sources say that unknown assailants attacked a regime checkpoint affiliated to the “Air-force Intelligence” in Al-Karak Al-Sharqi town in the eastern countryside of Daraa.

The gunmen used machineguns during the attack which took place in the early hours of Wednesday. No casualties were reported.

Since the beginning of security chaos in Daraa in early June 2019, Syrian Observatory activists have documented more than 398 attacks and assassination attempts by gunfire and detonations of IEDs and bomb-vehicles. These attacks and assassinations claimed the lives of 235 persons, they are as follows:

• 50 civilians, including five women and four children

• 122 regime soldiers, loyalists and collaborators with regime security services

• 42 fighters of the faction who struck “reconciliation and settlements” deals with the regime and became in the ranks of regime’s security branches, including former commanders

• 17 Syrian militiamen affiliated to the Lebanese Hezbollah and Iranian forces

• Six members of the so-called 5th Corps which was established by Russia.