Daraa | Unknown gunmen kill young men

Daraa province: A young man accompanied by two of his friends was shot dead in west Al-Malihay town in east Daraa countryside, on Thursday night, rising the accident death toll to two persons.

Reliable sources told SOHR that two masked men stormed a house where three young men were inside and opened fire and fled. One was killed while the other two sustained severe wounds. One of the wounded died on Friday morning.

Since the beginning of the security chaos in Daraa in early June 2019, Syrian Observatory activists have documented more than 1,299 attacks and assassination attempts by gunfire and detonations of IEDs, motorcycle-bombs and car-bombs. These attacks and assassinations claimed the lives of 949 persons, categorised as follows:

• Four anti-reconciliation local militants.

• 305 civilians, including 18 women and 26 children

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

• 159 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

• 31 Syrian militiamen affiliated to the Lebanese Hezbollah and Iranian forces

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