5 killed in Syria’s Daraa in 3rd week of September
DARAA, Syria (North Press) – During the current week, five individuals, most of them are civilians, were killed in different areas in the governorate of Daraa, south Syria amid ongoing security chaos.
On Friday, a soldier of the Syrian government forces was killed on the outskirts of the town of Jasim in the northern countryside of Daraa, following an attempt by the government forces to raid farms east of the town.
Local sources told North Press, “One of the government soldiers was killed during clashes erupted between the government forces and local armed men.”
On September 20, local sources told North Press, “Adnan Izzat al-Beriqi was killed in an unidentified attack by armed men who were riding a motorcycle near al-Dalafin roundabout south of the town of Muzayrib in Daraa western countryside.
Samir al-Barhomi was wounded in the same incident.
On September 18, local sources told North Press that unidentified attackers shot directly Yahya Ali Aradi, a soldier of the government forces, in the town of Ain Thakar west of Daraa.
Aradi was critically wounded, and he was transferred to the National Hospital in the city of Nawa, in the western countryside of Daraa, where he succumbed to his injuries, according to the source.
On September 17, unidentified gunmen, riding a motorcycle, shot Ali Abdul’aziz al-Aweir dead in the town of Dael in the countryside of Daraa.
Al-Aweir was hospitalized to the National Hospital in the town of Tafas in the western countryside of Daraa, where he died, the source added.
Al-Aweir was a former member of a Syrian opposition faction before Syrian government forces entered Daraa in 2018.
On the same day, unknown gunmen killed Muhammad al-Masa’id, known as “Abu Qassem al-Badawi”, in a neighborhood of the city of Daraa, a local source told North Press.
Al-Masa’id was one of the people accused of working in drug trade and promoting it among youth, according to the source.
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.