Assassination | Unknown assailants shoot dead ex-fighter in eastern Daraa

Daraa Province – Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: SOHR activists have documented the killing of a person in Tafas town in the western countryside of Daraa, after being shot by unknown gunmen.

 

It is worth noting that the victim was a former opposition fighter who had struck a reconciliation deal with regime security services.

 

Since the beginning of security chaos in Daraa in early June 2019, Syrian Observatory activists have documented more than 618 attacks and assassination attempts by gunfire and detonations of IEDs, motorcycle-bombs and car-bombs. These attacks and assassinations claimed the lives of 411 persons, and they are as follows:

 

• 109 civilians, including 12 women and 12 children

 

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

 

• 73 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

 

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

 

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