Three intelligence officers were killed Friday in an ambush set up by unknown assailants in southern Daraa province, local observatory said.
The ambush targeted officers in the Political Security near Ghabageb town in the northern countryside of Daraa, said Ahrar Horan Gathering.
Hunting of regime officers and its intelligence agents has mounted since last year, setting the regime's alarm as the three-year-old reconciliation deal in southern Syria is coming without fruit.
Russia-backed regime fighters recaptured Daraa from rebels in 2018, in a symbolic blow to the anti-regime uprising born there in 2011.
Two weeks ago, armed men killed 21 Syrian regime soldiers, heading to arrest a former opposition commander, in an ambush in the Al-Mzairib district near Daraa city, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The soldiers were heading to the Al-Mzairib district in the rural west of the province when militants loyal to the former opposition commander opened fire at them seeking to thwart his capture, Observatory head Rami Abdul Rahman said.
“The militants attacked two military trucks and two small buses carrying regime forces,” he added.
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 dozens of former rebels to carry weapons again, according to analysts.
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.
Zaman Al Wasl
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