Daraa security vacuum | Unknown gunmen attack the house of commander of local faction in western countryside
Daraa Province – Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: SOHR sources have reported that an armed group opened fire on the house of a commander of a local faction operating under the banner of the “4th Division” in Sahem Al-Golan in west Daraa countryside. The attack, which followed an altercation between the commander and other locals of the area, caused material damage only.
Since the beginning of the security chaos in Daraa in early June 2019, Syrian Observatory activists have documented more than 913 attacks and assassination attempts by gunfire and detonations of IEDs, motorcycle-bombs and car-bombs. These attacks and assassinations claimed the lives of 598 persons, categorised as follows:
- 168 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.