Daraa | Four civilians and four regime “collaborators” and soldiers killed in last 24 hours

Daraa province: Over ongoing assassinations and security chaos in Daraa province, south of Syria, a collaborator with regime security services was killed by unidentified gunmen in Al-Soura town, east of Daraa., while a young farmer was shot by unknown gunmen in al-Maliha al-sharqiya town , east Daraa.

The number of victims of violence across Daraa province during the last 24 hours has risen to eight , half of whom are civilians and half of whom are members of regime forces and their collaborators. The deaths are distributed as follows:

• 3 civilians, including a woman over the rocket attack carried out by regime forces on the city of Nawa, west of Daraa, yesterday.

• 3 members of the regime military security service in the IED attack on a regime military vehicle on the road between Nawa and Sheikh Saad in west Daraa countryside yesterday.

•a collaborator with regime security services was killed by unidentified gunmen in al-soura town, east of Daraa.
• a young farmer was shot by unknown gunmen in al-Maliha al-sharqiya town , east Daraa.

Accordingly, the number of people who were killed across Daraa province since the start of the recent agreements has risen to 71. The fatalities were distributed as follows:

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

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

• Four local gunmen of anti-reconciliation groups.

Since the beginning of the security chaos in Daraa in early June 2019, Syrian Observatory activists have documented more than 1,247 attacks and assassination attempts by gunfire and detonations of IEDs, motorcycle-bombs and car-bombs. These attacks and assassinations claimed the lives of 912 persons, categorized as follows:

• Four local gunmen of anti-reconciliation groups.

• 284civilians, including 16 women and 26 children

• 407 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.