Security chaos in Daraa | Security officer assassinated in Ankhel, while unknown attackers throw grenade on checkpoint near al-Sahwa.
Daraa province: SOHR activists have reported that unknown armed men opened fire today on a civilian with an ID issued from the state security branch while he was standing in front of a bread bakery in Ankhel city in the northern countryside of Daraa, which resulted in his death.
The victim had been a member of opposition factions in Daraa city, before he worked as a security officer responsible for securing the bread bakery in Ankhel city after he had struck reconciliation deal in 2018.
On the other hand, unknown assailants threw a grenade on a regime checkpoint at the entrance of al-Sahwa town, after which violent clashes took place with machineguns between regime troops and the attackers, amid heavy gunfire on al-Sahwa city, without reports of causalities.
Since the beginning of the security chaos in Daraa in early June 2019, Syrian Observatory activists documented more than 1,108 attacks and assassination attempts by gunfire and detonations of IEDs, motorcycle-bombs and car-bombs. These attacks and assassinations claimed the lives of 759 persons, categorised as follows:
- 217 civilians, including 13 women and 22 children
- 350 regime soldiers, loyalists and collaborators with regime security services.
- 135 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.
- 31 members of the so-called 5th Corps which was established by Russia.