The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Assassination | unknown assailants shoot dead regime-backed member in eastern Daraa

Daraa Province – Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: reliable sources have informed the Syrian Observatory that unknown assailants shot dead a member of the regime’s “4th Division”, on Nahteh-Al-Mulayha Al-Sharqiyya in the eastern countryside of Daraa.

 

Since the beginning of security chaos in Daraa in early June 2019, Syrian Observatory activists have documented more than 487 attacks and assassination attempts by gunfire and detonations of IEDs, motorcycle-bombs and car-bombs. These attacks and assassinations claimed the lives of 321 persons, and they are as follows:

 

  • 79 civilians, including seven women and seven children

 

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

 

  • 52 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.