Security chaos in Daraa | Unidentified gunmen assassinate collaborator with regime forces in western countryside

Daraa Governorate – Syrian Observatory for Human Rights:

SOHR activists say that unidentified gunmen assassinated a collaborator with regime forces. The victim is the son of a retired general, and was shot in the town of Tel Shihab 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 866 attacks and assassination attempts by gunfire and detonations of IEDs, motorcycle-bombs and car-bombs. These attacks and assassinations claimed the lives of 585 persons, categorised as follows:

• 160 civilians, including 12 women and 16 children 

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

• 113 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

• 25 members of the so-called 5th Corps which was established by Russia.