The ongoing security campaign continues in the countryside of Aleppo, Idlib and Hama raising to 270, the number of people who were detained by the factions which carry out the arrests and raids
The processes of searching, arrests and raids are sill continuing by the “National Liberation Front” and by Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham and other security bodies, in search for sleeper cells of the “Islamic State” organization and people who are accused of “cooperating with the regime and seeking for hold reconciliations”, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored that arrests took place in the western countryside of Aleppo province which is linked to Idlib countryside, where about 10 persons who are accused of being “sleeper cells of the organization” were arrested, also arrests took place against the other group of people who are accused of “cooperating with the regime and seeking for hold reconciliations”, in other areas in Idlib countryside, in a security campaign continuing for 10 consecutive days, thus, it rose to about 270, the number of people who were arrested during this security campaign which has been continuing for the 10th consecutive day.
The Syrian Observatory published on Wednesday, that the joint security campaign of factions operating under the name “the National Liberation Front”, in addition to Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham, is continuing, in the towns and villages of the eastern countryside of Maarrat Al-Nu’man and the southern countryside of Idlib, and in the details obtained by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights; tens of vehicles of the factions participating in this campaign, are continuing their raids and detentions in the towns and villages of Idlib countryside, where these factions have arrested more than 95 persons on charge of “communication with the regime in order to reach reconciliations”, and the security campaign is still continuing so far, while the raids are accompanied by gunfire, amid information about that a child girl was hit by random gunshot in Al-Taman’aa town, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published today morning, that it monitored factions that operate under the National Liberation Front carrying out a process of raids and arrests on Wednesday morning, the 8th of August 2018, in villages located in the eastern countryside of Maarrat al-Nu’man, where the Syrian Observatory monitored several arrests on charges of “communicating to reach reconciliation with the regime”. In the same context and within the same process, Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham carried out a process of raids and arrests in the towns and villages in the southern countryside of Idlib for the same reasons and charges, and the Syrian Observatory published on the 5th of August 2018 that the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored that the National Liberation Front carried out several arrests in the north-western countryside of Hama, where intersected sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory that the arrests which took place in the area targeted about 50 persons of the residents of these areas, who were arrested on charge of trying to hold reconciliations with the regime forces”, while sources suggested that the reasons of these accusations return to the fact that most of the detainees are officials in the regime’s government departments, and that they held meetings with delegations of the regime’s intelligence in Hama city, in addition to accusations of propagations by these people for “the return of the regime and allowing the Russian police to enter the north-west of Hama”, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published on the 3rd of August 2018, that it monitored raids and arrests carried out by Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham since the dawn of today, Friday, the 3rd of August 2018, in Khan Shaykhun city and Mdaya village in the southern countryside of Idlib, where Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham arrested several people within a security operation searching for “cells of the Islamic State organization” in addition to people accused of “cooperating with the regime in relation to reconciliations”, and the intersecting sources of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights confirmed that the raids were carried out in several houses in the above-mentioned villages, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also published on the 1st of August 2018, that it monitored a unity by 5 military formations, operating in the Syrian North and have been displaced to it, under the name the “National Liberation Front”, after meetings and consultations between representatives and commanders of Hayyaat Tahrir Syria, Suqour Al-Sham Brigades, Jaysh Al-Ahrar, Damascus Gathering, announcing themselves as the “core of the incoming Jaysh Al-Thawra”, while this unity announced its full military structure, and this merger comes more than two months after a previous merger under the same name, where the SOHR monitored in late May 2018, 11 factions announcing the formation of the “National Liberation Front”, where Al-Sham Corps, the 1st Coastal Division, the 2nd Coastal Division, the 1st Infantry Division, the Free Idlib Army, Jaysh al-Nasr, Jaysh al-Nukhba, the Second Army, Shuhada al-Islam (Darayya), Liwa Al-Huriyah, Division-23, announced the formation of this army in one statement announcing the launch of this new group, and the statement said: as a part of our duty to seek to unit the word of the rebel factions, and our awareness of the danger, risks and pain which Al-Sham territory suffered from, as a result of the division of theses factions, and as a correction to the past failures, and for seeking to cooperate with our brothers, in the coming responsibilities, the factions which signed this statement sought to form a new gathering under the name the “National Liberation Front”, and now we announce the birth of this new formation, and we invoke Allah to be a project that includes all revolutionary components that believes in the goals of our revolution and are devoted to its constants and seek to achieve them”.