Eastern Daraa countryside | Assassination attempt on fighter of Russian-backed “Fifth Corps”
Daraa Governorate – Syrian Observatory for Human Rights:
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has monitored a new assassination attempt in Daraa governorate, as unidentified gunmen opened fire on a member of the “Fifth Corps” established by Russia, in the town of Al-Kahil in the eastern countryside of Daraa. No casualties have been reported so far.
Since the beginning of the security chaos in Daraa in early June 2019, Syrian Observatory activists have documented more than 829 attacks and assassination attempts by gunfire and detonations of IEDs, motorcycle-bombs and car-bombs. These attacks and assassinations claimed the lives of 540 persons, categorised as follows:
- 151 civilians, including 12 women and 16 children
- 243 regime soldiers, loyalists and collaborators with regime security services
- 104 fighters of factions that 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
- 24 members of the so-called 5th Corps which was established by Russia.