Growing tension | Fifth Corps militiamen tear posters of the Syrian regime president in eastern Daraa
Syrian Observatory activists have documented the death of a member of the 5th Corps from Sayda town in the eastern countryside of Daraa, affected by the wounds he had in Friday’s clashes between the Russian-backed 5th Corps and checkpoint affiliate to the regime’s state security in Mahajeh town.
In connection to this, Sayda town experienced security tension after gunmen of the 8th Brigade of the 5th Corps had torn posters of the Syrian regime president, Bashar Al-Assad, protesting the killing of two members of the 5th Corps.
SOHR sources said that a popular demonstration took place in the town of Tafas in Daraa countryside, demanding the toppling of the Syrian regime and the expulsion of Iranian militias and Lebanese Hezbollah from Syria.
Residents in the town of Kahil east of Daraa, participated in the funeral of one of the members of the 8th Brigade of the 5th Corps who was killed during clashes with regime forces in the previous day in Mahajeh town.
The funeral was turned into a demonstration during which the participants chanted slogans against regime forces and security branches, demanding the toppling of the regime.
Since the beginning of security chaos in Daraa in early June 2019, Syrian Observatory activists have documented more than 529 attacks and assassination attempts by gunfire and detonations of IEDs, motorcycle-bombs and car-bombs. These attacks and assassinations claimed the lives of 353 persons, and they are as follows:
- 85 civilians, including eight women and eight children
- 175 regime soldiers, loyalists and collaborators with regime security services
- 57 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
- 19 Syrian militiamen affiliated to the Lebanese Hezbollah and Iranian forces
- 19 members of the so-called 5th Corps which was established by Russia.