Besieged Daraa | Gunmen attack military posts of regime forces in western Daraa

Daraa province: Local gunmen attacked in the early hours of Tuesday, tanks brigade with heavy weapons in al-Sheikh Saad town in western Daraa. The regime forces have bombarded with heavy artillery checkpoint of the air intelligence in Dael city with RPG and heavy weapons. But, no causalities have been reported yet, while the regime forces have continued its strikes with mortars on districts in the besieged Daraa al-Balad.

Yesterday, SOHR activists reported that two regime soldiers were killed in an attack by local gunmen on military checkpoints in Daraa.

This incident raises the death toll among regime troops in 24 hours to seven soldiers, while 12 other soldiers were injured.

The Syrian Observatory had documented the death of five regime soldiers, a day earlier, in an attack by local gunmen on regime checkpoints in al-Sanmayn, Daraa al-Balad and the vicinity of Tafs.

SOHR also documented more civilian fatalities in Daraa, where a civilian was killed in Daraa al-Balad today in bombardment by the regime forces on the residential neighborhoods.

On Sunday, SOHR documented that the number of civilians who were killed in regime bombardments on Daraa province risen to three, as two men were killed in a bombardment on the neighborhoods of the besieged Daraa al-Balad, and a woman was killed by rocket attacks on Jillen town in western Daraa.

On the other hand, regime forces shelled Daraa al-Balad with high-explosive rockets. These rocket attacks coincided with the failure of negotiations to reach a settlement in Daraa, where the Central Committee and the dignitaries rejected Syrian regime conditions to stop the military escalation.

These conditions included handing over the weapons and the establishment of nine regime’s military checkpoints inside the besieged neighborhoods of Daraa al-Balad.

SOHR activists had reported escalation of unprecedented rocket and artillery fire on besieged Daraa al-Balad, that conduced with the ongoing violet lashes between the 4th Division and its factions on one side and the local gunmen on the other, in bids by the regime to storm Daraa al-Balad districts under intensive fire coverage without change in the controlling map in the region till the moment.