Forces from the Syrian regime army in the Daraa countryside (French)
About 10 Syrian regime soldiers were killed and injured during clashes with opposition factions in Daraa Governorate, south of the country.
Local sources told Anadolu Agency that clashes broke out yesterday, Thursday, between regime forces and opposition factions in the town of Mahajah, north of Daraa.
It explained that the regime forces launched military operations on the town of Mahjah under the pretext that joint patrols with the Russian military police were subjected to armed attacks.
The same sources confirmed the outbreak of clashes between opposition factions and regime forces, which bombed the north of the town with heavy and light weapons.
It indicated that two women were injured as a result of the clashes, and about 10 soldiers among the regime forces were killed and injured, without details about their health conditions.
On the other hand, the same sources reported that regime forces arrested 5 civilians during their withdrawal from the town.
The first demonstration against the regime began in Damascus on March 15, 2011, and included dozens of activists, and quickly dispersed as security forces pursued it.
It was then followed by a major demonstration in Daraa on the 18th of the same month, after the security forces arrested and tortured children who wrote anti-regime phrases on the walls of their school, and then insulted their families who came to demand their release, by the head of the intelligence branch, Atef Najeeb, a cousin of the regime’s president, Bashar al-Assad. .
The opposition forces took control of Daraa from 2012 to 2018, and as clashes intensified between the opposition factions and the regime, Turkey, Iran, and Russia, the guarantor countries of the Astana process regarding Syria, declared Daraa Governorate a de-escalation zone in May 2017.
However, the Assad regime launched a ground attack on the region in June 2018, and its forces announced its control over the entire Daraa in July 2018, and thousands of opponents and their families were forced to leave the region towards the northern regions of the country.
Source: Anadolu Agency