The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Fighters of the “reconciliation and settlement” faction are the fuel for the regime forces in its military operations north of Syria

Rif Dimashq Province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned from several reliable sources that hundreds of young men and boys of Rif Dimashq who were former fighters of the factions during their control of the area and subsequently carried out “reconciliation and settlement” after the regime forces controlled it; are now on the fighting fronts alongside the regime forces in the northern and northwestern countryside of Hama, in addition to mountains of the coast, after regime’s authorities pulled them out of their military barracks on several stages during the last weeks, where the Syrian Observatory documented the killing of 13 fighters of the “reconciliation and settlement” factions of the people of al-Zakyah, al-Kiswah, and Douma in Rif Dimashq, since the beginning of the heaviest escalation within “de-escalation” area.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published on the 30th of April 2019 that reliable sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights that the regime’s intelligence services have transferred tens of detainees of the people of the Eastern Ghouta to Sednaya Military Prison, after interrogation had been accomplished in the security branches after arresting them on various charges after the regime forces had imposed their control over the area and after the exit of the military factions from the Eastern Ghouta of Damascus and evacuating them to the Syrian North, and in the details obtained by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights; the detainees who were taken to Sednaya Prison, were detained in Al-Khateeb branch in the capital Damascus, and the Air Force Intelligence’s branch in Harasta city, and both branches are affiliated to the Air Force Intelligence, where the number of detainees exceeded 100, most of them were former fighters in the rebel and Islamic factions which fought against the regime forces in the Eastern Ghouta, and they were arrested although they struck “reconciliation and settlement deals” and received guarantees that they would not be targeted by the security branches, where they had been transferred to Sednaya after being questioned in the security branches and after proving the charges directed to them of engaging in clashes against the regime forces and gunmen loyal to them in the past years during the opposition factions’ control over the Eastern Ghouta.