The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Looming large-scale campaign | Regime forces amassing troops of the 4th Division and military intelligence in western Daraa

Daraa Province – Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: reliable sources have informed SOHR that regime forces are preparing groups of the 4th Division and military intelligence service, in order to storm Al-Muzayreb, Al-Yadoudah and Tal Shehab in Daraa countryside. Military build-up was seen in Al-Rayy area, near Al-Muzayreb town, along with the arrival of a military column of nearly ten vehicles in Zayzun town in the western countryside of Daraa.

 

SOHR sources reported earlier this morning that unknown gunmen shot dead a person in Jasem town in the northern countryside of Daraa in the early hours of Saturday morning.

 

Since the beginning of security chaos in Daraa in early June 2019, Syrian Observatory activists have documented more than 627 attacks and assassination attempts by gunfire and detonations of IEDs, motorcycle-bombs and car-bombs. These attacks and assassinations claimed the lives of 416 persons, and they are as follows:

 

  • 113 civilians, including 12 women and 12 children

 

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

 

  • 74 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.