Militants Want Families Back to Army-Controlled Regions

Rasa - The family members of those militants that had turned down the Damascus reconciliation plan and left Eastern Ghouta for the Northern territories are demanding the government to allow them to return to their regions in Damascus province.

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Date: 19 June 2018 - 21:34

RNA - The family members of those militants that had turned down the Damascus reconciliation plan and left Eastern Ghouta for the Northern territories are demanding the government to allow them to return to their regions in Damascus province.

Damascus

Government and militant sources said a growing number of such families, originally from Eastern Ghouta, have called for returning to towns and villages.

In the meantime, local sources reported measures done by the peace committees and the Syrian army for facilitating the return of these families, adding that more families will go back home after the army issued the needed permission.

A large number of militants and their family members that left their region for Northern Syria have already voiced regret over their departure due to the hard living conditions and lack of basic and vital facilities in terrorist-held regions in North.

In a relevant development on Sunday, Syrian Human Rights Network Head Ahmad Kazem said that US intelligence was preparing a provocation involving chemical weapons near Al-Tanf, Syria, and that its purpose will be to drive a wedge between Damascus and Syria's Kurds.

"Right now (at Al-Tanf) preparations are being made by US special services in coordination with ISIL in the region to stage a provocation identical to the kind that took place in Douma," Kazem told Sputnik.

"Kurds, including women and children, are being prepared for the false flag operation," he added.

Kazem thinks there is an 'extremely strong' probability for the provocation to be carried out. "It is being prepared with the goal of causing a collision between the Kurds and the Syrian army," he said.

Deir Ezzur

The ISIL terrorists are preparing for a large-scale attack on the Syrian Army in Eastern Deir Ezzur as the US military is providing logistical backup for the terrorists in the Eastern part of the war-hit country, well-informed sources reported on Sunday.

The sources said that the ISIL has gathered it fighters and military vehicles in a 150-kilomerer long region between Albu Kamal and al-Mayadeen on the Western Bank of the Euphrates River.

They added that the ISIL has deployed in a region between Albu Kamal and the T2 Oil Pumping Station, preparing for a massive attack on army positions in Syria's Badiyeh (desert) in Eastern Deir Ezzur.

Hundreds of ISIL gunmen had previously crossed the Euphrates River towards its Western bank.

Dara'a

The Syrian Army dispatched more fresh forces and military equipment to Dara'a province on Sunday to reinvigorate combat forces for a large-scale assault on terrorists in the Southern part of the war-hit country.

The army forwarded a large number of forces and equipment to Northwestern Dara'a to launch an imminent massive attack against ISIL in Dara'a and Quneitra provinces.

In the meantime, local sources said that the army has sent more soldiers and military hardware to the Death Triangle region, including Deir al-Adas in Western Dara'a.

The sources further said that the army plans to kick off the assault after its elite forces arrive in Dara'a.

Raqqa

Two units of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) engaged in fierce clashes over arms and ammunition stolen from a depot in the town of Tabaqa in Western Raqqa that was under the control of one of these units.

The military police, affiliated to the SDF, arrested two security forces and four guards at a base in the town of Tabaqa.

The move was done after the military police found out that some SDF members had been stealing arms and ammunition from the base, selling them in the black market.

In the meantime, the SDF's intelligence forces reported on Friday that over 20 people in the village of al-Jayef in Western outskirt of Raqqa city were arrested and some other people were beaten due to their alleged involvement in selling weapons and munitions.

Aleppo

The US-backed SDF are planning to launch a large-scale military operation in Northwestern Aleppo to push back the Turkish troops and their allied militants from Afrin region, a media source reported on Sunday.

The Kurdish-language Rudaw news website reported that the SDF intends to kick off a large-scale operation to push back the Ankara forces from Afrin.

Rudaw pointed to several meetings between the SDF commanders and foreign powers in the region, adding that the SDF is preparing to carry out a massive operation in Afrin, Jarabulus and Azaz.

The website further said that al-Bab region is among those regions likely to come under attack by the SDF.

Rudaw went on to say that the Northern Syria operation will be launched after the SDF ends battle with ISIL-affiliated Asefat al-Jazeera gunmen in Deir Ezzur province.

Idlib

A senior commander of Tahrir al-Sham Hay'at (the Levant Liberation Board or the Al-Nusra Front) was assassinated by unknown assailants in Idlib province, field sources reported on Sunday.

The sources said that Abu Mos'ab al-Saheli, a notorious field commander of Tahrir al-Sham, was assassinated after unknown raiders opened fire at him in Idlib.

In the meantime,  a booby-trapped blast killed a number of National Liberation Front terrorists along the Idlib road to Ma'arat Mesrin, the sources said, adding that heavy infighting is underway between Tahrir al-Sham and Faylaq al-Sham rival terrorists in Tal Hadiyeh in Southern Aleppo.

According to Fars News Agancy, the sources further said that Tahrir al-Sham laid siege on a group of Faylaq terrorists in Tal al-Eis region in Southern Aleppo.

Also on Sunday, a large number of civilians in the town of al-Bab in Northern Aleppo poured into the streets, and called for expulsion of the Turkish Army men and their allied militants from their region, a Kurdish-language media source reported.

Hawar news quoted local sources in the village of Qabasin in al-Bab region in Northern Aleppo as reporting that the Turkey-backed terrorists have been looting civilians' possessions and assets.

The sources told Hawar news that the Ankara forces are forcing people in al-Bab to leave their houses to find enough room to shelter their own members, enraging people in al-Bab who are calling for expulsion of terrorists from their town.

In the meantime, the Turkey-backed forces have arrested and killed a number of civilians in the region or have called for a hefty amount of money as their ransom.

Hawar news further warned that infighting among Ankara-backed terrorists and looting people's assets are underway in the town of Afrin.

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