Escalating chaos in Daraa | Three assassinations in 12 hours leave many dead

Reliable sources have informed the Syrian Observatory that unknown gunmen on motorcycle shot dead an ex-fighter in opposition factions in Hayt town in the western countryside of Daraa. This is the third assassination in the past 12 hours.

 

Since the beginning of security chaos in Daraa in early June 2019, Syrian Observatory activists have documented more than 465 attacks and assassination attempts by gunfire and detonations of IEDs, motorcycle-bombs and car-bombs. These attacks and assassinations claimed the lives of 304 persons, and they are as follows:

 

• 70 civilians, including seven women and four children

 

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

 

• 48 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.