Daily assassinations in Daraa in southern Syria have recently increased in an unprecedented way, targeting leaders and members of militias affiliated with the Syrian government forces, drug smugglers and traffickers, government employees, gunmen and opposition civilians. This has been going on for the past four years despite the settlement agreement between the Syrian government and the opposition under Russian mediation in July 2018.
According to a report by the Daraa Martyrs Documentation Office, a local human rights organization that documents violations in Daraa, 508 assassinations and assassination attempts took place in Daraa province, killing 329 people, in 2021.
