New assassination | Unidentified persons kill individual with “settled-status”, western Daraa countryside

Daraa province: As chaos and insecurity persisted in Daraa, Syrian Observatory activists have reported a new assassination committed on Sunday evening, when a member of opposition factions, who had previously stuck a”reconciliation deal,” and became in the ranks of regime local groups, was shot dead in Tafs city in the western Daraa countryside.

Since early February, the Syrian Observatory has documented 18 incidents of killings and security instability in Daraa, leaving casualties and deaths; 11 persons were killed: Five civilians and six members of the factions who had struck settlements and reconciliation deals.

Accordingly, the number of attacks in Daraa province since early January has risen to 48, which left 36 people: 20 civilians, 12 regime-backed combatants, three individuals with settled-status dead and an ex-ISIS member.

Since the beginning of the security chaos in Daraa in early June 2019, Syrian Observatory activists have documented more than 1,340 attacks and assassination attempts by gunfire and detonations of IEDs, motorcycle-bombs and car-bombs. These attacks and assassinations claimed the lives of 980 persons, categorised as follows:

• Four local gunmen of anti-reconciliation groups.

• 323 civilians, including 18 women and 26 children

• 418 regime soldiers, loyalists and collaborators with regime security services.

• 167 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.