The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

The regime’s security services continue their arbitrary campaigns in the areas of “conciliations” and arrests tens in Daraa and Damascus

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored new raids and arrests by the security services of the Syrian regime within the areas of “conciliations and settlements” in Damascus, its countryside and the Syrian South, where the Syrian Observatory learned that the Syrian regime’s Intelligence arrested today, Monday the 29th of October 2018, a whole family from their house in Rukn Al-Din neighborhood in the capital Damascus, where 3 men and 2 women were arrested after this family arrived days ago from the Syrian North after they have left to it according to the agreement that was reached in Barzeh in Damascus in May 2017, between the regime forces and the factions which used to be located in the area at that time and which led to the exit of those who rejected the agreement to the Syrian North, and in the Syrian South and in Daraa province in particular, the Syrian Observatory monitored arrests by the regime’s security services in Al-Sheikh Meskeen, Al-Sanamayn and al-Jiza in Daraa countryside, where they arrested more than 15 persons in Al-Sanamayn, about 10 persons in Al-Sheikh Meskeen, and 2 persons in al-Jiza town, on varying charges such as ” defaulting the compulsory military service in the army of the Syrian regime and being sleeper cells of Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham and the Islamic State organization”, and the arrests come as a part of new violations to the agreements that were reached previously within the areas of the “conciliations and settlements”.

And the Syrian Observatory monitored on the 9th of October 2018, new raid and search of citizens houses by regime’s intelligence in Saqba city in the Eastern Ghouta, where they took an elderly woman and another citizen to an unknown destination, intersected sources suggested that the members raided the neighborhood on charges of the detainees’ contact with their relatives in the Syrian north, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published hours ago that the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored raids and arrests carried out by regime’s intelligence on Tuesday morning, the 9th of October 2018, in Douma city, and in the details obtained by the Syrian Observatory for Human rights, regime’s intelligence raided Souq al-Hal in the middle of Douma city in the Eastern Ghouta and other areas in the southern neighborhood of the city, and they arrested 3 citizens from Mesraba town and then took them to an unknown destination, also the regime forces closed the streets of al-Quwatli and Halab in Douma city amid security alert in the mentioned areas.

And the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also published on the 4th of October 2018 that regime forces’ security led by the military security intelligence, carried out a security operation in Qudsaya area on the outskirts of the capital Damascus, where raid and search operations took place during the last four days in the citizens’ houses all over Qudsaya area, where checkpoints was established at the entrances of the area, and reliable sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights that the security forces were carrying lists of about 100 names of young men wanted for conscription, and the Syrian Observatory learned that the security forces arrested 18 youths and took them to the conscription service, also the Observatory’s local sources confirmed that the regime forces tightened the security measures at the entrances of Qudsaya areas, and requested official papers concerning the postponement of conscription service for students travelling on the checkpoints.

Reliable sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory that this operation is the largest in Qudsaya area since the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them managed to control it, after the displacement of its fighters and civilians who rejected the agreement between representatives of the area and regime’s authorities, and were transported aboard tens of buses from Qudsaya and al-Hamah areas to Idlib Province and the Syrian north in October 2016, and these recruitments come along with preparations under way in the ranks of the pro-regime gunmen supported by Russia to demobilize thousands of members, and in the details obtained the Syrian observatory: preparations are underway for the demobilization of some 8000 members of the Russia supported-and-armed Tiger Forces, under the supervision and command of the brigadier general of the regime forces Suhail Al Hassan, the most prominent Syrian military regime leader, who had full Russian support in his military operations during the past months and years, and which caused the recovery of tens of thousands of square kilometers from the provinces of Damascus, Rif Dimashq, Aleppo, Homs, hama, Daraa, Quneitra, Deir Ezzor, and al-Raqqah, which raised regime’s control to more than 61% of the geographical area of Syria, and the Tiger Forces have participated in violent clashes against the rebel and Islamic factions, Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham, and the “Islamic State” organization in several areas of Syria.