On Saturday evening and Sunday, pro-regime media networks mourned two officers, as well as loyalist figures. The officers, one of which was a colonel, were mysteriously killed in Lattakia and Tartous governorates in western Syria.
Bassam Rasho, 49, who is vice president of the Agricultural Association in Lattakia governorate, was found dead by a local resident on Saturday evening, according to the pro-regime al-Khabar TV.
According to the source, the assassination took place in the village of Brabshabo in rural Latakia.
Meanwhile, loyalist pages mourned a colonel in the regime forces named Abdul Majid Suleiman Habous, a 58-year old, who is nicknamed “Abu Ghaffar.” Habous died mysteriously in the village of Hammam Wasel in the Baniyas area, in the rural Tartous governorate.
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It should be noted that areas controlled by the Syrian regime are experiencing a state of insecurity, largely due to the proliferation of weapons among teenagers. Increasingly, militias are arming these teenagers, leading to almost daily crimes.
In related news, loyal sources mourned Brigadier-General Aktham Hussein, commander of the second brigade (volunteer regiment) in the Ba’ath Brigades militia. Hussein hails from the Tartous governorate.
Neither pro-regime sources nor the media gave any details regarding the circumstances of Hussein’s death or the place where he died. Other sources claimed that COVID-19 caused Hussein’s death.
On Saturday evening, unidentified gunmen assassinated regime forces member Ayoub Rustom on the Izraa-Sheikh Maskin road, which is north of Daraa.
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