BALADI NEWS
A blast killed six regime army soldiers in Daraa province Wednesday in a rare, deadly attack in the defeated cradle of the eight-year uprising, a monitoring group said."The explosive device was aimed at a convoy transporting members of the Fourth Division" in the southern province of Daraa, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.Fifteen others were also wounded in the attack near Yadud village, some seven kilometres outside the provincial capital of Daraa city, the Britain-based monitoring group said.It was not immediately clear who was behind the blast, but loyalists in the province face explosions and gunfire on a near daily basis, although they are usually not deadly, it said."Previous rebel fighters who call themselves the Popular Resistance usually carry out these types of attacks against the regime," Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman said.Russia-backed regime forces last summer retook the province, following a deadly bombardment campaign and surrender deals that saw part of the population board buses to an opposition holdout region in the northwest.Local anger has grown after hundreds were detained despite the so-called "reconciliation deals", and many others forcibly conscripted into Bashar al-Assad's army.Source: Zaman Al-Wasl.
