Security vacuum in Daraa | IED explosion rocks Daraa Al-Balad, while drug dealer working for the 4th Division injured in gunfire
Daraa Province – Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: SOHR sources have reported an IED explosion by a street on the outskirts of Daraa al-Balad in south Syria, but no casualties have been reported.
On the other hand, unknown gunmen opened fire on a man on the road to al-Sadd in Daraa al-Balad yesterday, injuring him seriously. It is worth noting that the targeted man is a drug dealer working for the 4th Division, headed by Maher Al-Assad the brother of the Syrian regime’s president.
Since the beginning of the security chaos in Daraa in early June 2019, Syrian Observatory activists have documented more than 1,002 attacks and assassination attempts by gunfire and detonations of IEDs, motorcycle-bombs and car-bombs. These attacks and assassinations claimed the lives of 679 persons, categorised as follows:
- 186 civilians, including 12 women and 19 children
- 314 regime soldiers, loyalists and collaborators with regime security services
- 127 fighters of factions that struck “reconciliation and settlements” deals with the regime and became in the ranks of regime’s security branches, including former commanders
- 24 Syrian militiamen affiliated to the Lebanese Hezbollah and Iranian forces
- 27 members of the so-called 5th Corps which was established by Russia.