The regime forces with the gunmen loyal to them expand their scope of control within Daraa to 78% of the area of the province in 3 consecutive weeks
Daraa Province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: with the continuation of the regime forces to expand their scope of control inside Daraa province, and their deployment in more area joining them to other areas through settlements that are based on Russia’s agreement with the representatives of Daraa province, the process of exchanging the influence of the powers which are located inside Daraa province, is continuing, where the regime forces managed to impose their control over more areas and expand their scope of control to 78% of the area of Daraa province, while the factions’ scope of control has decreased to 15.4% of the area of the province, while Jaysh Khalid Ibn al-Walid is in control of an area of 6.6% of Daraa province.
This control comes after the killing and substantial destruction to the property of citizens and to the infrastructure in the areas which have been shelled, and after the violent attacks by the regime forces and gunmen loyal to them, in addition to the “reconciliations” which took place in a number of villages and towns, where this shelling resulted in the death of 162 citizens including 32 children and 33 women, who have been killed since the 19th of June 2018, in the raids, intense rocket and artillery shelling and raids by the Russians and regime on Daraa Province, and in mine explosion, also the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented at least 135 casualties of the regime forces and gunmen loyal to them who have been killed since the 19th of June 2018, the date of starting the regime’s military operation in Daraa countryside, while the SOHR documented the death of 132 fighters at least of the rebel and Islamic factions who were killed in the same period, as a result of the aerial and rocket shelling and clashes.
And the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published this morning, that it monitored the regime forces continue to be deployed on the Syrian-Jordanian border today, Monday, the 9th of July 2018, where the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them advanced in the western countryside of Daraa, by imposing their control over the areas of Tal Shihab, Zayzoun, and Hayt, and they become in control of the entire areas of factions on the border with Jordan, also, for the first time since more than five years ago they become in contact with Jaysh Khalid Ibn al-Walid; which swore allegiance to the “Islamic State” Organization, and the Syrian Observatory monitored the regime forces deploy in vehicles, armored vehicles, and military forces on the entire border, where this borderline from al-Suwaidaa Province until the areas that are controlled by Jaysh Khalid Ibn al-Walid; has become under the control of the regime forces, Including Nasib border crossing with Jordan.
Link of a high resolution map shows the control of the regime forces and their advancement inside Daraa province expanding their control to 78% of the area of Daraa
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