FSA-affiliate Al Omari brigades have succeeded in arresting a cell affiliated with the Assad regime. This cell was targeting civilians and military personnel by planting IEDs in Dara’a city and its countryside.

Local sources reported: “Al Omari brigades carried out a broad raid campaign that lasted for several hours in the town of Basma and Al Shayaha in rural Dara’a. During the campaign, Al Omari brigades arrested the seven-member cell recruited by Assad forces in Dara’a province”.

Sources confirmed: “The members of the cell have admitted to planting and exploding IEDs on the road between Msika and Basr Al Harir, and on other roads that witnessed similar incidents in eastern rural Dara’a”.

In the same context, on Sunday after midnight, a huge explosion rocked eastern rural Dara’a. It turned out later that the explosion was caused by an IED planted between Al Hirak city and Al Maliha Al Sharqiyah town without any reports of civilian or military casualties. Also, FSA fighters succeeded in detonating an IED found near Masaken-Saida in rural Dara’a.

Lately, Dara’a province has been witnessing assassinations with IEDs executed by cells affiliated with Assad regime and ISIS. These assassinations have significantly increased after the inclusion of the Syrian South in the de-escalation agreement concluded last July.