West of Daraa | New assassination targeting settled-status member of regime’s Military Security

Daraa Governorate – Syrian Observatory for Human Rights:

With the escalation of assassinations targeting members and collaborators with regime forces in Daraa governorate in southern Syria, unidentified gunmen assassinated a settled-status member, who had joined the regime’s Military Security, by shooting him with several bullets in the town of Al-Muzayrip in western countryside of Daraa.

Since the beginning of the security chaos in Daraa in early June 2019, Syrian Observatory activists have documented more than 856 attacks and assassination attempts by gunfire and detonations of IEDs, motorcycle-bombs and car-bombs. These attacks and assassinations claimed the lives of 567 persons, categorised as follows:

• 158 civilians, including 12 women and 16 children

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

• 111 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.