Five regime soldiers killed or wounded in attack in rural Daraa

Daraa Province – Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: Syrian Observatory sources have reported that unknown assailants attacked regime military vehicle with machineguns on Bosr Al-Harir-Izraa road in the eastern countryside of Daraa. The attack left at least three regime soldiers dead, while two others sustained injuries.

Since the beginning of security chaos in Daraa in early June 2019, Syrian Observatory activists have documented more than 403 attacks and assassination attempts by gunfire and detonations of IEDs and bomb-vehicles. These attacks and assassinations claimed the lives of 244 persons, they are as follows:

• 50 civilians, including five women and four children

• 129 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.