The researcher assistant at the Omran Center for Strategic Studies and non-resident fellow at the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy (TIMEP), Muhsen AlMustafa, told Enab Baladi that the targeting operations are confined to three warring parties: the opposition, the regime, and fighters of the Islamic State organization in southern Syria.
He considered that the continuation of these targeting operations in the governorate is evidence of the “security failure” of the regime’s agencies and forces there. As for benefit and harm, the researcher explained that the regime does not view human losses as a measure of benefit or harm; what matters to it is controlling the land and imposing its authority over it, regardless of the number of dead from any side, including its own forces.