New assassination | Former opposition member killed in Daraa

Daraa province: Syrian Observatory activists have reported a new assassination in the western countryside of Daraa, where a former member of the opposition factions was killed, who had struck a “settlement deal” and did not join any military ranks.

Accoring to SOHR sources, the young man was shot by unidentified persons in Hirak town, east of Daraa, killing him instantly.

Accordingly, the number of attacks in Daraa province since early January has risen to 32, which left 26 people: 15 civilians, eight regime-backed combatants and an individual with settled-status dead.

 

Since the beginning of the security chaos in Daraa in early June 2019, Syrian Observatory activists have documented more than 1,325 attacks and assassination attempts by gunfire and detonations of IEDs, motorcycle-bombs and car-bombs. These attacks and assassinations claimed the lives of 970 persons, categorised as follows:

 

Four local gunmen of anti-reconciliation groups.

318 civilians, including 18 women and 26 children

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

163 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.