More than 50 injuries out of more than 350 members from the Eastern Ghouta of who were sent to fight the organization in the south of Damascus

The process of joining members from the Eastern Ghota of Damascus, to the battles of the South of Damascus, are continuing, to fight in the side of the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities, against the “Islamic State” organization, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights obtained information from a number of reliable sources, that the number of those joining the fighting fronts against the organization in the south of Damascus, has increased to more than 350 members of those who are from the Eastern Ghouta volunteers in the ranks of the regime forces and gunmen loyal to them, the reliable sources also confirmed to the SOHR that the number of wounded in the ranks of these members exceeded 50 members in the past week, during their fighting against the organization in the neighborhoods of Yarmouk Camp, Al-Hajar al-Aswad and Al-Tadamon in the southern part of the capital Damascus.

And the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned from reliable sources that the number of persons who joined the ranks of the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them has reached more than 4000 persons, and they are from the towns and cities of Douma, Hamouriyah, Arbin, Jesrin, KafrBatna, Hazza, Mesraba and Saqba, and other areas in the Eastern Ghouta including former fighters who had joined military action when it began in the Eastern Ghouta, and then they left it and stayed home until the factions got out of it and displacing those who refused the agreement of the Eastern Ghouta factions with the regime and the Russians, the process of joining men and young men to the ranks of the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them continues, the reliable sources also confirmed to the Syrian Observatory in the first half of April 2018 that hundreds of Al-Rahman Corps’ fighters have surrendered to the regime forces, in the wake of the departure of the convoys of Al-Rahman Corps’ fighters with their families and citizens who reject the agreement, and in the details obtained by the Syrian Observatory; the total number of the fighters and commanders who have surrendered to the regime forces, approximated 1200 fighters and leaders, as groups of Al-Rahman Corps’ members have surrendered sequentially, where the sources confirmed to the SOHR that about 800 fighters mostly are of the security groups operating within Al-Rahman Corps, including groups and battalions commanders, surrendered to the regime forces in conjunction with the departure of the convoys from the Eastern Ghouta, according to the agreement of Zamalka – Jobar – Arbin, where these groups were the security pillar of Al-Rahman Corps, which the corps depended on, in the operations of the internal fighting in the Eastern Ghouta, with Jaysh Al-Islam and Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham, also about 320 fighters of those stationed on the contact lines and fronts with the regime forces and their allies of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities, surrendered after the departure of all convoys from the former controlled areas of Al-Rahman Corps in the Eastern Ghouta of Damascus, in Jisrayn, Hamouriyah, Arbin, Kafr Batna, Saqba and Jobar, and the Syrian Observatory learned that one of the field commanders who confronted a large attack by the regime forces in 2017 when they carried out a violent attack on Ein Tarma area, has surrendered to the regime forces with more than 40 of his members, and the reliable sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights that most of the members who have surrendered to the regime, turned into “popular committees” operating within the ranks of the regime forces, and the members who have surrendered, included groups commanders, prison chiefs, and battalions and brigades commanders in Al-Rahman Corps, where they joined the forces of the 4th Division and the Republican Guard and other bodies affiliated to the regime, while the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published on the 19th of March 2018, that groups of Al-Rahman Corps, turned into popular committees operating with the regime forces, in the area used to be controlled by Al-Rahman Corps and which the regime forces advanced into, in the south-western enclave of the Eastern Ghouta of Damascus, and it monitored clashes against fighters in the corps in the contact areas between these committees and the members of the latter.