The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Daraa security chaos | Motorbike explodes near Air-Force Intelligence checkpoint in eastern countryside

Daraa province: SOHR activists have reported that a booby-trapped motorbike has exploded on the road between Damascus and Daraa near the Air-Force Intelligence checkpoint at Al-Ghariyah Al-Gharbiyah Bridge in the eastern countryside of Daraa, but no casualties have been reported yet.

Accordingly, the number of people who were killed across Daraa province since the start of the recent agreements has risen to 79. The fatalities were distributed as follows:
• 40 civilians, including two child and a woman, some of them were former fighter and gave up fighting after striking reconciliation deals in 2018.
• 35 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 1,260 attacks and assassination attempts by gunfire and detonations of IEDs, motorcycle-bombs and car-bombs. These attacks and assassinations claimed the lives of 919 persons, categorised as follows:
• Four local gunmen of anti-reconciliation groups.
• 287 civilians, including 16 women and 26 children
• 411 regime soldiers, loyalists and collaborators with regime security services.
• 156 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.