Deteriorating security in Daraa: unidentified person found dead near Tafas

Daraa Province – Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: security situation is still deteriorating in the regime-held province of Daraa. Syrian Observatory activists say that unidentified person was found dead and dumped in Tafas area in the north-western countryside of Daraa.

Since the beginning of security chaos in Daraa in early June 2019, Syrian Observatory activists have documented more than 384 attacks and assassination attempts by gunfire and detonations of IEDs and bomb-vehicles. These attacks and assassinations claimed the lives of 229 persons, they are as follows:

• 49 civilians, including five women and four children

• 118 regime soldiers, loyalists and collaborators with regime security services

• 41 fighters of the faction who struck “reconciliation and settlements” deals with the regime and became in the ranks of regime’s security branches, including former commanders

• 17 Syrian militiamen affiliated to the Lebanese Hezbollah and Iranian forces

• Six members of the so-called 5th Corps which was established by Russia.