Clashes continue between ISIS, local armed men in Syria’s Daraa
DARAA, Syria (North Press) – Clashes between local armed men and militants belonging to the Islamic State Organization (ISIS) in the town of Jasim in the northern countryside of Daraa, a governorate south Syria, continued on Friday.
Local sources told North Press the clashes renewed in the northern neighborhood in the town after a number of ISIS militants fortified in a house.
The sources added that the local armed men extended a curfew imposed in the town since early on Friday without setting a deadline for it.
Military groups affiliated with the Eighth Brigade of the Russian-backed Fifth Corps arrived in the town to support the local armed men, according to the sources.
Syrian government forces stationed in the town and its outskirts did not move or support the local armed men though they (government forces) threatened to storm the town in search of the ISIS militants.
Mosques in the village of Barqa in the northern countryside of Daraa announced a curfew in the village until further notice where Ayoub al-Jebawi, an Amir of ISIS, was killed.
Al-Jebawi hails from Barqa.
On Friday morning, two ISIS militants were killed in the clashes with the local armed men, two of which were killed in the clashes.
Since the government forces re-captured Daraa in 2018, the governorate has been living in a state of insecurity, with one or two daily assassinations targeting soldiers and officers of the government forces, not to mention the spread of thefts.
In 2021, Daraa Governorate went through an 80-day-seige. After that, a number of Daraa’s notables and government forces, with mediation of Russian officers, reached a ceasefire agreement on September 5, 2021, including handing over weapons and deploying governmental security posts in the towns of the governorate.