(Zaman Al Wasl)- Three people have been killed in separate gunmen attacks in southern Daraa province, local activists said Monday.
Most of the attacks have been targeting former rebel fighters.
Last Thursday, two former commanders were killed by unknown assailants.
The gunmen opened fire on Adnan Abazid and Motez Qanat near the town of al-Nakhla east of Daraa city, according to Zaman al-Wasl reporter.
In 2019 alone, there were at least 305 assassination attempts recorded across Daraa province, according to the Daraa Martyrs Documentation office, a local monitoring group. Assassinations and disappearances have targeted all sides in Daraa’s messy post-conflict politics, according to Middle East Eye.
Rebel groups held on to some of their weapons, and local reconciliation committees were left with a degree of autonomy not seen in other areas of Syria. The result was a complex patchwork of localised truces.
Daraa was the cradle of the Syrian uprising that erupted in March 2001.
In nine years, the Syrian war has claimed the lives of 390,000 people and forced 13 million people from their homes, half of whom have left their shattered homeland.
Zaman A Wasl
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