Combating ISIS | Regime summons over 1,000 settled-status people for military drill
Deir Ezzor province: SOHR sources have said that regime security services have summoned more than 1,000 people who have undergone reconciliation deals in Deir Ezzor, Al-Mayadeen, and Al-Bokamal areas, for a 15-day military drill at Al-Talaa’ camp inside 137 Brigade of 4th Division forces on the outskirts of Deir Ezzor, to confront ISIS in the Deir Ezzor desert after the end of the military drill.
Yesterday, SOHR sources said that regime forces and their security services raided the towns of Mohassan, Al-Marbaiyah, Baqrs, and Bowlil, in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor during the past days, searching for and digging up gun warehouse and funds hidden by ISIS cells in these areas during their control.
Regime forces was informed about ISIS warehouse by former ISIS members and leaders who had recently made “reconciliation” with the regime.
According to SOHR activists, the excavation by regime forces starts at night and lasts for hours. This coincided with the curfew imposed on civilians in the aforementioned areas.
On December 19, SOHR sources reported that security patrols of general intelligence service of regime” Security services” of Deir Ezzor City branch encircled the devastating commercial bank in Al-Mayadeen city in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor.
This devastated commercial bank is a three-storey building and cellar that was bombed by coalition aircraft in 2017 causing the destruction of the three floors but the building basement was not affected.
In the presence of the intelligence chief of Deir Ezzor branch, State Security personnel removed some of the rubble and opened a gap to the basement.
The personnel of security services found money, gold, and documents belonging to ISIS and some weapons in a tunnel linking the basement of the commercial bank to Al-Hassan school, where there was, taking valuables to state security headquarters in Deir Ezzor.
According to Syrian Observatory sources, regime personnel knew about the warehouse as “Abu Ahmad Al-Ansari,” a former ISIS member from Deir Ezzor who had recently made “reconciliation” with the regime, has informed regime personnel.