Instability in Daraa | “Air-force Intelligence” checkpoint comes under attack
Reliable SOHR sources have confirmed that gunmen attacked a checkpoint of the regime’s Air-force Intelligence this dawn. The targeted checkpoint is near the 52nd Brigade in the east of Al-Harrak city in the eastern countryside of Daraa. No casualties have been reported.
Since the beginning of security chaos in Daraa in early June 2019, Syrian Observatory activists have documented more than 581 attacks and assassination attempts by gunfire and detonations of IEDs, motorcycle-bombs and car-bombs. These attacks and assassinations claimed the lives of 383 persons, and they are as follows:
- 103 civilians, including 12 women and 11 children
- 181 regime soldiers, loyalists and collaborators with regime security services
- 60 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.