The regime forces and allies expand their control to 84.4% of Daraa Province’s area and shell a town north of Daraa after negotiations about its fate fail
Daraa Province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored several explosions after midnight of yesterday shook the northern countryside of Daraa, they were caused by shelling by the regime forces on areas in al-Hara town and its surroundings, which caused material damage but no information about casualties, also the Syrian Observatory learned that the shelling came after the fail to reach an agreement between representatives of al-Hara town and between the regime and the Russians, about the fate of the town, which is located next to the highest hill in Daraa province, while the regime forces and their allies have been able so far to control 84.4% of the area of Daraa Province, either through military control or by adding cities, towns, and villages to their control through “reconciliation and settlements”, which took place after agreements with representatives of these areas, while the size of the faction’s controlled areas decreased to 8.4% of the area of Daraa Province, after they were controlling most of the province before the start of the military operation by the regime forces on the 19th of June 2018, while Jaysh Khalid Ibn al-Walid was able to expand its control to 7.2% of the area of Daraa Province, where it controls an enclave trapped within a triangle of areas controlled by the regime and the factions – the Jordanian border – the border with the occupied Syrian Golan.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published in the past 24 hours that the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored the entry of the regime forces to Inkhil city in the northern countryside of Daraa city, after a “reconciliation” agreement that was reached through meetings which took place between representatives of the towns and between the regime, where members of the regime forces and police have entered the area according to this agreement, thus, and according to these separated agreements, more towns are included within the controlled areas of the regime forces in Daraa province, which have been expanded since the 19th of July 2018, the date of starting the regime’s military operation supported by Russia in Daraa province, which led to imposing their control over tens of towns and villages.
The advancement of the regime forces and their control on more towns and villages of Daraa, is coincided with the escalated pace of thefts and looting of property by the regime forces and gunmen loyal to them, where sources confirmed to Syrian Observatory for Human Rights that some members of the regime and its allies, thieved “power transformers” in areas in the south-east of Daraa, also the looting of the property of the citizens is continuing, amid obvious Russian ignore to this looting, and to the arrests against tens of citizens of Daraa province of who did not displaced from the areas which joined the controlled areas of the regime forces.
And the Syrian Observatory published yesterday, that the calm has been prevailing Daraa province since yesterday Thursday, the 12th of July 2018, after the entry of regime forces’ officers, the governor of Daraa, and the Russian military police to Daraa al-Balad in Daraa city, has and raising the internationally-recognized regime’s flag, followed by joining of Kafr Shams town to regime forces’ controlled areas; after reaching a “reconciliation” agreement between representatives of the town and the regime, also the regime forces controlled hills near to the town according to the same agreement, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned regime’s authorities have prepared staff and technicians to reactivate the government institutions within Daraa Province, also, the fronts and contact lines between the factions and Jaysh Khalid Ibn al-Walid in the Yarmouk basin in the western countryside, are witnessing calm after violent clashes ended with the latter’s control of Hayt town and imposing an “agreement” with the factions to withdraw and hand over their weapons.
Link of a high-resolution map shows the distribution of powers and conflict in the Syrian south
