IED attack | Explosion targets leader of local factions of Military Intelligence branch in Daraa countryside
Daraa Governorate – Syrian Observatory for Human Rights:
SOHR activists say that a leader of local factions of the Military Intelligence branch and his brother were injured in an IED explosion in the western neighbourhood of Saida town in eastern Daraa countryside.
Syrian Observatory activists have reported an attack with rocket-propelled grenades (RPG) fired by unknown gunmen, in the early hours of Monday morning, on headquarters of the 4th Division in Nahaj village in the western countryside of Daraa. The attack resulted in the injury of five former opposition fighters who had struck reconciliation deals and joined the 4th Division.
Since the beginning of the security chaos in Daraa in early June 2019, Syrian Observatory activists have documented 900 attacks and assassination attempts by gunfire and detonations of IEDs, motorcycle-bombs and car-bombs. These attacks and assassinations claimed the lives of 593 persons, categorised as follows:
- 163 civilians, including 12 women and 16 children
- 267 regime soldiers, loyalists and collaborators with regime security services
- 114 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.