The Life of Hamdi Ahmad Hajj Ali

Security incidents continue in Deraa

While internal developments and news from Syria’s southern province of Deraa on the border with Jordan and the Golan Heights may attract less interest and attention than before, there are still regular security incidents in the province in the form of assassinations with gunfire and IED attacks. These incidents can kill civilians, local government employees, criminals and local militiamen, and security and military personnel. At least some of these attacks have been and likely still are the work of the Islamic State. These incidents do not mean that the collapse of formal Syrian government control over Deraa is imminent, but rather only that there is a persistent, chronic instability.

In this post, I document the life of a Syrian army officer- Hamdi Ahmad Hajj Ali- who was killed in a recent incident in Deraa (photo below).