Two people were assassinations on Tuesday by unidentified assailants within one hour in Daraa Governorate, according to a local monitoring group.
The Ahrar Horan Gathering confirmed that two of the operations took place in the town of Jassem in the northern countryside of Daraa. A former detainee by the regime security died of his wounds sustained after being shot by unknown gunmen.
The second crime in Jassem targeted a former rebel fighter. He was seriously wounded when an armed group opened fire on him over claims of cooperating with Syrian security.
In the town of Dael, unknown armed group opened fire on To'mah Al-Shahadat, the former leader of the 'Sunni Youth Forces', a unit of the Free Syrian Army, "and a former rebel fighter, Trad Turki Al-Shahadat, which led to the first serious injury, and the death of the other immediately.
The Horan Gathering reported that a 55-year-old man was murdered at his door by gunshots. The reasons for the killing are not clear till now.
Daraa, which borders Jordan and is close to the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, is widely seen as the cradle of the 2011 uprising in Syria, which sparked a decade-long war that has killed almost half a million people.
The rebels hung on until 2018. But after weeks of deadly fighting, the Russia-backed regime retook control under a surrender deal.
Moscow had brokered similar so-called "reconciliation" accords in Syria's second city of Aleppo, as well the Eastern Ghouta region, outside the capital Damascus, according to AFP.
Under those deals, rebels handed over their heavy weapons and left on buses. But in Daraa, many former opposition fighters stayed behind.
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