New attempted assassination | Unidentified gunmen attempt to kill mayor and collaborator with Military Security in Daraa countryside

Daraa province: SOHR activists have reported two assassination attempts in Daraa countryside, where an IED explosion hit the car of the mayor of Nimr city, causing only material damage.

Moreover, unidentified gunmen opened fire on a civilian working for the regime’s Military Security branch, in al-Sanmin city in Daraa countryside. However, his fate remains unknown.

Accordingly, the number of people who were killed across Daraa province since the start of the recent agreements has risen to 52. The fatalities were distributed as follows:

• 28 civilians, including a child, some of them were former fighter and gave up fighting after striking reconciliation deals in 2018.

• 24 regime soldiers, members of the Russian-backed 5th Corps and regime “collaborators”.

Since the beginning of the security chaos in Daraa in early June 2019, Syrian Observatory activists have documented more than 1,239 attacks and assassination attempts by gunfire and detonations of IEDs, motorcycle-bombs and car-bombs. These attacks and assassinations claimed the lives of 894 persons, categorised as follows:

• 275 civilians, including 14 women and 26 children

• 402 regime soldiers, loyalists and collaborators with regime security services.

• 155 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.

• 27 Syrian militiamen affiliated to the Lebanese Hezbollah and Iranian forces.

• 35 members of the so-called 5th Corps which was established by Russia.