The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Daraa security chaos | Unidentified persons attack “police station” in NW Daraa countryside

Daraa province: SOHR activists reported hearing heavy gunfire yesterday evening Al-Harah city in the northwestern countryside of Daraa after unidentified persons targeted the “police station” in the city with grenades.

Responding to the attack, regime personnel stationed inside the police station fired indiscriminately. However, no causalities were reported.

Since the beginning of the security chaos in Daraa in early June 2019, Syrian Observatory activists have documented more than 1,287 attacks and assassination attempts by gunfire and detonations of IEDs, motorcycle-bombs and car-bombs. These attacks and assassinations claimed the lives of 938 persons, categorised as follows:

Four local gunmen of anti-reconciliation groups.

302 civilians, including 18 women and 26 children

413 regime soldiers, loyalists, and collaborators with regime security services.

158 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.

36 members of the so-called 5th Corps which was established by Russia