A woman and her two children were killed by an improvised explosive device in southern Daraa province, local news accounts said Thursday.
Activists said the IED attack on Wednesday was targeting the woman's brother-in-law who cooperates with the Military Intelligence in Daraa. Her husband and the boy child were also wounded in Om al-Ma'athen 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.
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.
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.
Zaman Al Wasl
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