DAMASCUS, May 28 (Xinhua) -- A state of chaos has been witnessed in rebel-held areas in northern and southern Syria, a monitor group reported on Monday.
In the southern province of Daraa, a major lawlessness has been reported with an increase in the killings and assassinations amid rebel factions' failure to identify perpetrators or stabilize the situation there, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The chaos fomenters in Daraa are carrying out kidnappings and shootings. They also plant explosive devices on the roads, said the observatory, adding that six bodies were found tossed on the street near the Syrian-Jordanian borders at dawn Monday.
The victims had been shot before their bodies were thrown on the side of the road, 24 hours after two other bodies were found in the Khawabi area in the southern countryside of Daraa.
On Saturday, unknown armed men shot dead a young man in the al-Sanamayn city in the northern countryside of Daraa, said the observatory, adding that a kid and another young man were wounded in the shootout.
Daraa, located near the Jordanian border, was the birthplace of the Syrian crisis with the first protests erupting from that area in 2011.
Seven years on, the Syrian army is now preparing to wrest control back over the province with activists reporting military reinforcements being sent to that area after the Syrian army completely secured the capital Damascus from the rebels.
Syrian helicopters have dropped leaflets on rebel-held areas in Daraa, urging the militants to lay down their weapons and the civilians to cooperate with the army to dislodge the rebels from that province.
Various rebel groups are positioned in Daraa, including al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front and the Islamic State (IS).
A day earlier, activists said that various rebel groups in Daraa had united under the name "The Salvage Army," a front aimed to confront the anticipated wide-scale military offensive in Daraa.
In northern Syria, meanwhile, security chaos similar to that in Daraa was reported on a larger scale in the northwestern province of Idlib.
The Britain-based observatory said three people were killed over the past 24 hours in a shootout in Idlib, adding that 119 people have been killed in separate incidents and circumstances over the past month in the province.
However, this state of lawlessness and chaos has been dragging on for quite some time, with activists saying that 4,000 rebels were either killed or wounded amid a state of resentment from the families there toward the rebels for the looting and attacks on the people's properties.
Idlib has become the main destination for all militant groups, which evacuated areas around Damascus and other key Syrian areas after reaching deals with the army when they got fully besieged.
The striking force in that province is Nusra Front, otherwise known as the Levant Liberation Committee.
A day earlier, reports said that the Syrian army dropped leaflets on areas in the countryside of Idlib, calling on the civilians there to push the Syrian militants to reconcile with the government and abandon the foreign fighters who are linked with ultra-radical groups.
The population in Idlib is estimated at over 1.5 million, with tens of thousands of rebels and their families resettling there after relocating from the provinces of Hama, Homs, and the countryside of Damascus in recent months.
