“Daraa’s Popular Resistance” carries out its first operations, leaving casualties among the regime forces in a direct response to taking people for recruitment and reserve services and for the violations in the Syrian south
Daraa Province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the security chaos continues and expand within Daraa Province in the Syrian south, also things go beyond operations carried out by unidentified parties to operations under a new name launched on the 4th of February 2018, it is the “Popular Resistance”, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored the killing of at least 3 members of the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them, as a result of an explosive device detonation planted at a checkpoint in Namer area northeast of Daraa countryside, which killed 3 members, where this bombing operation was claimed by the “Popular Resistance”, which is the first of its operations in Daraa Province after announcing itself, in a response to the arrests and taking people for the reserve and conscription services, and to the violations against the residents of Daraa Province, which was controlled by the regime forces months ago after extensive military operation and “reconciliation and settlements”, and the Syrian Observatory published on the morning of the 4th of January 2019, that what is known as the “Popular Resistance” in Daraa province released a statement calling on young men and men of Daraa to join it, in the lite of campaigns of the regime forces for recruiting them in the “mandatory and reserve” service in regime’s army, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights received a copy of the statement, it says:
“After how things have become in the southern area and after what we witnessed of treachery of the crime machine and its break of the conducted covenants and reconciliation, and what it carries out of raids, arrests, and calling the youth for the compulsory and reserve service and imposing the return of the defected members to serve side by side with the sectarian militias to kill our people in the north, exploiting the hardship of living and narrowing down on the people in the light of the difficult life conditions, we in the the popular resistance will be the powerful shield that defends the people of our beloved country, Syria, with all of its spectrum wherever they are, so we invite you to join the ranks of the popular resistance that seeks to keep the injustice away of the oppressed and to follow the path of freedom, for which we have given blood, body parts, detainees, and lives.”
And the Syrian Observatory published on the 5th January 2019, that the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored during the past 48 hours, an increase in name lists sent by regime’s security services to Daraa Province, which includes hundreds of names of young men and men of Daraa Province, in order to be recruited in the “compulsory and reserve services” in regime’s army, where the new lists included about 2000 names distributed as follows: 700 wanted from Sahem al-Golan, 600 are wanted from Tasil, 300 from Hayt, 200 from al-Shajra, over 90 from Naf’aa, and more than 60 from Jomla, and in the same context; about 300 persons of who defected of the regime forces and joined the factions before and then they carried out a “reconciliation and settlement” were assembled in Ghabagheb town north of Daraa, to join the ranks of the military, as part of their return to regime’s army and the Syrian Observatory published yesterday, Monday, that Daraa Province is witnessing a state of security alert by regime’s intelligence and security services, due to the security situation and the escalating chaos in areas of Daraa province, since the regime forces and their loyal militias controlled it, where sites and checkpoints of the regime forces ae being targeted, in addition to the assassinations of members of the regime forces and other fighters and commanders who carried out “reconciliation and settlements”, as well as the phrases that filled the walls of province, denouncing the control of the regime forces and promising continuous operations, and the Syrian Observatory monitored since the control of the regime forces and their loyal militias for Daraa Province; tens of operations and targeting, most notably the process that took place late January 2019, where unknown gunmen attacked by rocket shells and medium machineguns one of the largest checkpoints of the regime forces in the eastern countryside of Daraa, which is Nahta, followed by an attack yesterday, Sunday, the 3rd of February 2019, by unidentified people against regime’s Air Intelligence detachment in Dael area, in the middle countryside of Daraa, while these escalating incidents prompted the regime forces to dramatically raise their alert status; in search of the cells that carry out such attacks, where the regime forces intensify their patrols and inspection on their checkpoints, an attempt to stop the security chaos that is storming the area, while the so-called popular resistance has emerged as an adopter of most of the targeting and assassination operations in Daraa, and the organization published a statement this morning in which they called the young men to join it.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published on the 3rd of February 2019 that the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored a new targeting against the regime forces in Daraa province, over which the regime forces imposed their control months ago after a military operation and a series of “reconciliations and settlements”, and in the details obtained by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights; unidentified gunmen have attacked the detachment of the regime’s Air Force Intelligence in Da’el in the middle countryside of Daraa area which caused material damage, without information about human losses, while the Syrian Observatory monitored several explosion in the eastern countryside of Daraa city on the 31st of January 2019, it turned out that they were caused by an attack by unidentified gunmen on positions of the regime forces and in the details obtained by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, unidentified gunmen attacked today evening, Thursday, by shells and medium machineguns, one of the regime’s largest checkpoints in the eastern countryside of Daraa, Nahteh checkpoint, which led to the withdrawal of the checkpoint’s members to rear positions, while there is no information so far about the amount of the human losses, also sources informed the Syrian Observatory that the same checkpoint witnessed yesterday, Wednesday, an insult and altercations against a woman by the members of the checkpoint, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published yesterday, Wednesday, that tensions still prevails in Daraa city in the Syrian south, which is under the control of the regime forces and militias loyal to them, where the tension comes against the backdrop of the shootings that took place during the past hours in Daraa al-Balad in Daraa city, by a group of former fighters of the factions who carried out “reconciliation and settlements”, they are defected members of the regime forces who refused to rejoin the “mandatory or reserve services” within regime’s army, where their shooting came in protest against the practices of the regime forces despite settlements and reconciliation, refusing to return to the barracks and military positions within regime’s army. And in another context, the Syrian Observatory monitored the regime forces arresting 3 people in Alma village in the eastern countryside of Daraa on Tuesday evening, where they were taken to an unknown destination and no information about the reason for the arrest yet, and the Syrian Observatory published on the 26th of January 2018 that the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights have received information reporting that the regime forces collected today, Saturday the 26th of January 2019, tens of those who defected from them in Da’el town in the middle sector of Daraa countryside, and in the details obtained by the Syrian Observatory; about 200 recruits and officers of the people of the eastern countryside of Daraa who had defected previously from the regime forces and then carried out “reconciliations and settlements”, have been collected in Da’el town by the regime forces, in order to be send to the military police in Qaboun area in the capital Damascus, then to their military units all over Syria.