For attempting to arrest young men for compulsory service | Russian-backed militiamen confiscate weapons of Air-Force Intelligence Service’s checkpoint in Daraa countryside

Daraa Province: A group of members affiliated to the Russian-backed Eighth Brigade stormed a checkpoint for Air-Force Intelligence Service at the eastern entrance of Daraa city where they confiscated the weapons of the checkpoint’s members before they withdrew.

This incident took place after the checkpoint’s members attempted to arrest young men from the town of Saida, who had evaded the military service. However, no casualties have been reported.

On the other hand, an unknown explosion occurred in the town of al-Sahwa in the eastern countryside of Daraa, near al-Askari checkpoint on the agricultural road al-Sahwa-al-Jiza, but no casualties have been reported.

Since the beginning of the security chaos in Daraa in early June 2019, Syrian Observatory activists have documented more than 1,053 attacks and assassination attempts by gunfire and detonations of IEDs, motorcycle-bombs and car-bombs. These attacks and assassinations claimed the lives of 733 persons, categorised as follows:

• 204 civilians, including 13 women and 21 children
• 343 regime soldiers, loyalists and collaborators with regime security services.
• 132 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.
• 26 Syrian militiamen affiliated to the Lebanese Hezbollah and Iranian forces.
• 27 members of the so-called 5th Corps which was established by Russia.