The regime forces spread out with their allies in more areas of Daraa province and expand their scope of control to about 80% of the area of the province

Daraa Province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the regime forces are continuing to expand in Daraa province in the Syrian South, combining, with each advancement, more areas to their scope of control inside the province, decreasing the factions’ scope of control, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored consensus with the representatives of 4 towns in the north-western countryside of Daraa, on the entry of the regime forces according to the agreement with the Russians which ended the military operations, thus, the regime forces expanded their control and advanced even more inside the province, increasing their scope of influence to about 80% of the area of Daraa province, which decreased the factions’ scope of control to about 13.3% of the area of the province, after agreeing on handing over heavy weapons and the return of the regime’s institutions, and the agreement is supposed to be activated in the next 24 hours.

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, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also published yesterday 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.