The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Security chaos in SDF-held areas | Unknown gunmen assassinate civilian in front of his home in Deir ez-Zor countryside

Deir ez-Zor Province- Syrian Observatory for Human Rights:

SOHR activists have reported that two unidentified gunmen on a motorcycle targeted a civilian, who was a former Free Army fighter, in front of his house in the village of Ghariba Sharqiya near the town of Al-Sour, which is under the control of SDF in northern countryside of Deir al-Zour, killing him instantly.

Since July 2018 to date, the number of fighters, civilians, oil workers and civil servants assassinated in Aleppo, Deir ez-Zor, Raqqa and Al-Hasakah provinces and SDF-controlled Manbij area in northeastern Aleppo province increased to 658 persons.

The Syrian Observatory has documented the assassination of 236 civilians by armed cells, including 17 children and 11 women in the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor, Al-Hasakah countryside, Raqqa city and countryside and Manbij, in addition to the assassination of 418 fighters of SDF, including local leaders in the same areas, while four members of the International Coalition were killed, dozens of wounded were also reported by SOHR as a result of those assassinations.