Renewed exchange of targeting witnessed in areas in Daraa city between the regime forces against the factions and shelling targets the mountains of Latakia
Latakia Province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the regime forces shelled last night, places in Tuffahiyeh area and other areas in Jabal al-Turkman and Jabal al-Akrad in the northern countryside of Latakia, without information about injuries.
Daraa Province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the exchange of targeting renewed after the midnight of Wednesday – Thursday, between the regime forces against the factions in Daraa city, where the regime forces shelled the factions’ controlled areas in Daraa Al-Balad in Daraa city, while the factions targeted the regime’s controlled areas in Daraa city, without information about casualties so far, in continuation of the violations to the Syrian South Truce, within the American – Russian – Jordanian agreement, applied since the 9th of July 2017.
It is noteworthy that the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published on the 9th of July 2017, that the regional-international agreement went into effect in three provinces of southern Syria, namely Daraa, Al-Quneitra and Al-Suwaidaa, at 12 pm today, the 9th of July 2017. The SOHR has observed so far that calm is prevailing the provinces of southern Syria and no violations of the truce have been reported so far although the few moments that preceded its implementation witnessed the firing of several shells by the regime forces on faction-controlled areas in Daraa but no casualties have been reported so far.
This American-Russian-Jordanian agreement that includes three provinces of southern Syria came after violent battles during the last few weeks between the factions active there and the regime forces and their allied militiamen. where in al-Suwaidaa province there are Jaysh al-Asha’er, Ahmad al-Abdu Forces and Jaysh Usud al-Sharqiyyah, while the southern factions which supported by regional and international parties in Daraa Province, while in Al-Quneitra Province there are Jabhat Thowwar Syria, al-Ezz Brigades and Al-Furqan Brigades, while in Yarmouk Basin area in the western countryside of Daraa is controlled by Jaysh Khalid Ibn al-Walid who swore allegiance to the “Islamic State” Organization.