Joined regime’s Military Security earlier | Former opposition leader of settled-status members killed in Al-Quneitra blast

Reliable sources have informed the Syrian Observatory that the improvised explosive device that exploded this morning in a car carrying people on a road in the central countryside of Quneitra province, targeted a former opposition leader of the “Martyrs of Al-Quneitra” faction who struck a reconciliation deal and joined, along with a number of his members, the Military Security “branch 220”. The explosion killed the leader and injured three other people who were with him.

Since the beginning of the security chaos in Daraa in early June 2019, Syrian Observatory activists have documented more than 839 attacks and assassination attempts by gunfire and detonations of IEDs, motorcycle-bombs and car-bombs. These attacks and assassinations claimed the lives of 550 persons, categorised as follows:

• 152 civilians, including 12 women and 16 children

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

• 108 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.