Daraa in a sentence

Until then, the northern half of Daraa city was in regime hands, while the opposition held out in its southern neighbourhoods including Daraa al-Balad.

Eleven people were killed and dozens wounded when their pick-up truck ran over a landmine near Syria's southern city of Daraa, a war monitor said Saturday.

The cars entered on Saturday morning via Nasib Border Crossing in Daraa to participate in the emergency and rescue operations in a number of provinces.

The Syrian government is desperate in particular to wrest back control of Arab-majority Deir Ezzor, which is home to 70% of the country’s oil wealth, amid ongoing protests over fuel hikes and and neighboring Daraa, which are under its control.

In Daraa, Obada had attended school.

Syrian rebels said they seized control of the southern city of Daraa on Saturday (7 December), the birthplace of a 2011 uprising against President Bashar al-Assad and the fourth city his forces have lost in a week.

The army said it was redeploying in the south where the Observatory said the government had lost control of Daraa province and the key city of the same name, cradle of the 2011 uprising.

According to the Ministry of Agriculture and Agrarian Reforms rain bulletin the rain amounts in the Syrian provinces during the past 24 hours were as follows: Damascus countryside 1mm, Daraa 3mm, Homs 4mm, Hama 12mm, Tartous 2mm.

As band origin stories go, Moroccan five-piece Daraa Tribes has one that borders on the romantic.

And last month, anti-regime graffiti re-appeared on a Daraa wall.

Government institutions have returned to Daraa.

The attacks were earlier described as “probably Israeli” by the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor group, which said they targeted al-Harra in Daraa province, south of Damascus, and two areas in the neighboring province of Quneitra.

Abdel Rahman said it was likely that this faction was responsible for the attack, adding it was the first suicide bombing targeting regime forces since they launched an offensive on Daraa.

As the Syrian army closes in on Daraa, the final chapter in the Russian-led campaign is taking shape.

A Syrian family rides with belongings on a tractor-drawn trailer as they flee from fighting in the southern Syrian province of Daraa on June 21, 2018.

At the start of July, according to media reports, a blast rocked an arms depot belonging to an Iran-backed militia in Daraa, in southern Syria, where the Assad regime is involved in a major push to retake the area from Sunni rebel groups.

But just under half of Daraa province – including part of the provincial capital of the same name – still remains in the hands of rebels, and the UN is putting the numbers of internally displaced at over 160,000.

Last week, the Syrian government escalated air strike and artillery attacks on southern Daraa province, close to the border with Jordan, causing thousands to leave their homes.

Maryam said: “My father was a businessman in Daraa.

Meanwhile, Syrian state television and social media affiliated with the Assad regime have been broadcasting footage from villages on the eastern outskirts of the city of Daraa showing people waving photos of Assad and welcoming the Syrian army.