Daraa | Unknown gunmen kill young man and explosion targets ex-leader of opposition factions

Daraa province: Amid the on-going security instability in Daraa province in south Syria, unknown gunmen have shot a young man dead in Al-Bahar region in Daraa Al-Balad yesterday. The victim is from one of the Bedouin tribes in the region.

On the same context, a bomb exploded in Naseeb town in the east countryside of Daraa province, when a former leading member in the opposition factions, who struck reconciliation in 2018 and became a top of an armed group serving the regime, was passing by. According to SOHR sources, the blast wounded a woman was near to the scene and caused light material damage in the targeted man’s car.

Since the beginning of the security chaos in Daraa in early June 2019, Syrian Observatory activists have documented more than 1,301 attacks and assassination attempts by gunfire and detonations of IEDs, motorcycle-bombs and car-bombs. These attacks and assassinations claimed the lives of 950 persons, categorised as follows:
• Four anti-reconciliation local militants.
• 306 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.