IED attack | Regime “collaborator” survives assassination attempt in eastern Daraa

Daraa Province – Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: As assassinations and assassination attempts escalate across Daraa province, targeting regime soldiers, collaborators and others struck reconciliation deals with security services, SOHR sources have reported an IED explosion in the car of a “collaborator” with the Russian-backed “Al-Nimr” forces in Al-Harak town in the eastern countryside of Daraa. The explosion, which took place in the early hours of Monday morning, has left no casualties.

 

Since the beginning of the security chaos in Daraa in early June 2019, Syrian Observatory activists have documented more than 842 attacks and assassination attempts by gunfire and detonations of IEDs, motorcycle-bombs and car-bombs. These attacks and assassinations claimed the lives of 552 persons, categorised as follows:

 

• 154 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.