Daraa security vacuum | IED explodes in regime military vehicle in northern countryside

Daraa Province – Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: reliable SOHR sources have confirmed that an IED explosion targeted a regime military vehicle on the road between Jasim and Inkhil in the northern countryside of Daraa. No further details have been reported yet about the number of fatalities.

 

Since the beginning of security chaos in Daraa in early June 2019, Syrian Observatory activists have documented more than 664 attacks and assassination attempts by gunfire and detonations of IEDs, motorcycle-bombs and car-bombs. These attacks and assassinations claimed the lives of 440 persons, and they are as follows:

 

• 122 civilians, including 12 women and 15 children

 

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

 

• 77 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

 

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