(Zaman Al Wasl)- Two Syrian army Colonels were shot dead by an armed group in southern Daraa province, such an attack enrolls in a series of guerrilla war adopted by opposition fighters, local activists said Saturday.
The two Colonels had been ambushed in Al-Herak town in the eastern countryside of Daraa.
Hunting of regime officers and its intelligence agents has mounted in the past few weeks, setting the regime's alarm as the two-year-old reconciliation deal in southern Syria is coming without fruit.
Damascus has failed in southern Syria as its notorious security services continue arrests campaigns and keep tracking former rebel fighters who laid down their weapons, seeking to start a new post-war life.
Feeling insecure, has pushed dozen of former rebels to carry weapons again, according to analysts.
Last March, rare clashes erupted in the western countryside of Daraa but regime's massive power had smashed the rebellion when dozen of tanks were stationed in the town of Sanamayn. Since then a severe siege has been imposed on the town.
Russia, the de-facto ruler of Syria, tried to engulf the tension by freeing detainees and providing promises that most of have not come true until now, activists say.
More than 140,000 regime troops have been killed in nine years but opposition figures say the number is more.
In its turn, the regime bombing has killed about 400,000 people according to the UN and Britain-based monitoring groups. Also opposition rights groups say the number is more.
(Editing by Anwar Ali)
Zaman Al Wasl
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