Security campaign | Regime security services arrest leader of “Qalamoun Shield” forces in Yabroud city

Rif Dimashq Province – Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: Reliable sources have informed SOHR that regime security services have stormed the house of the leader of “Qalamoun Shield” forces in Yabroud city in western Qalamoun, Rif Dimashq. During the campaign, the security forces arrested the “Qalamoun Shield” forces leader for unknown reason.

 

According to SOHR sources, the leader of “Qalamoun Shield” forces is a prominent drug dealer in Al-Qalmoun region, Damascus and Rif Dimashq, and he has strong ties with some commanders of the Lebanese Hezbollah, who are used to smuggling narcotics from Lebanon to Syria.

 

On December 16, reliable sources in eastern Ghouta informed SOHR that regime security sources arrested a doctor in Kafr Batna town, after storming his clinic, where they took the doctor to a regime prison in Damascus. It worth noting that the doctor was arrested previously by regime security services, after regime forces captured eastern Ghouta in March 2018, for “working in field clinics during the opposition factions’ control of the region”. The doctor had been released only five months earlier, before regime security services arrested him again.

 

SOHR sources also confirmed that “Air-Force Intelligence” service arrested four young men in Ain Tarma town in the eastern Ghouta for “fighting in the ranks of ‘Al-Rahman Corps’ against regime forces during its control of the area, before the displacement agreement”.