[NPASYRIA] Daraa Governorate, southern Syria, still witnesses security chaos and an increase in killings although Syrian government deploy its forces everywhere, as in a week, six people were killed, most of them belong to the government forces.
On March 30, three soldiers of the government forces were killed after unknown people targeted their military vehicle in the western countryside of Daraa.
The government forces sent military forces of several vehicles and more than forty soldiers to the area to look for those who carried out the attack, according to a local source.
The government forces investigated the owners of shops near the area, the source added.
On March 28, unidentified people targeted an individual near the city of al-Hara, in the northern countryside of Daraa, killing him immediately.
A local source told North Press that Thamer al-Faroukh, used to work in a military post, affiliated with the Political Security Branch of the Syrian government, in the town of Akraba, in the northern countryside of Daraa.
Al-Faroukh hails from the city of al-Hara, but he fled the city after handing over a number of wanted young men to the government forces, according to the source.
On March 26, one person was killed and two others were maimed due to festivities between the Eighth Legion, affiliated with the government forces and an gang in the town of Inkhil, in the northern countryside of Daraa.
On the same day, a local source said that Hmedan al-Kor was targeted by unknown people in the city of Daraa, killing him immediately.
Al-Kor used to work for the military security branch of the government forces, according to the source.
In July 2018, the opposition armed factions and the government forces reached a ceasefire agreement mediated by Russia in the opposition-held areas in Daraa. Under the deal, the opposition armed factions agreed to hand over their heavy weapons in exchange for staying in Daraa, and those oppose the agreement would go to Idlib, which is under the control of the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else
 ...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...
(HTS, formerly al-Nusra
...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ...
Front).
Since the government forces re-captured Daraa in line with the 2018 agreement, the governorate has been living in a state of security chaos, with one or two daily liquidations targeting soldiers and officers of the government forces, not to mention the spread of thefts.
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