Daraa Security vacuum | Civilian assassinated in western countryside

Daraa Province – Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: SOHR activists have documented the killing of a civilian after being shot by unknown gunmen in Al-Yadoudah town in the western countryside of Daraa city. The motives behind this assassination have yet to be known.

 

Since the beginning of security chaos in Daraa in early June 2019, Syrian Observatory activists have documented more than 640 attacks and assassination attempts by gunfire and detonations of IEDs, motorcycle-bombs and car-bombs. These attacks and assassinations claimed the lives of 422 persons, and they are as follows:

 

• 118 civilians, including 12 women and 14 children

 

• 189 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.