DARAA, Syria (North Press) – Security services of Syrian government forces, accompanied by Russian Military Police (MP), continue to conduct settlement in Daraa governorate, southern Syria, where the status of hundreds of wanted persons has been settled and light weapons have been handed over in the western and northern countryside and Yarmouk Basin, and settlement process is currently underway in the eastern countryside of Daraa.
on October 9, the settlements reached the eastern countryside of Daraa after they were completed in the border town of Nasib with Jordan. The settlements also included the towns of Umm al-Mayathen and al-Tibiya adjacent to the town of Nasib.
The three aforementioned towns are of great importance to the government forces as they lie on Damascus-Amman Highway.
On October 13, settlement began in the towns of al-Jiza, al-Mata’iyah, and the villages of Nada and al-Oman in the eastern countryside of Daraa, followed by the towns of al-Meseifrah, al-Sahwa and al-Kark.
On Sunday, settlements began in the Eastern and Western Ghariyah towns, after a meeting of the town’s notables with government forces, in the presence of the Russian MP.
The government forces are demanding the residents of the eastern countryside of Daraa to hand over large quantities of weapons, as the settlement moves from one town to another.
Following a 80-day-seige, a number of Daraa’s notables and government forces, in the presence of a number of Russian officers, reached a ceasefire agreement on September 5, including handing over weapons and deploying governmental security points in the towns of Daraa governorate.
This agreement came after the failure of the agreement held between the Central Committee in Daraa al-Balad and the government forces, since Daraa al-Balad, Tariq al-Sad neighborhood and the camps were subjected to heavy bombardment by the Iranian-backed factions, which were completely besieging the area.
During the siege, Daraa al-Balad and the besieged neighborhoods were subjected to violent bombardment, which led to the death of twenty civilians, in addition to the extensive destruction of infrastructure.
On September 6, the implementation of the agreement began in Daraa al-Balad, where the security services of the government forces, accompanied by the Russian MP and the Central Committee in Daraa al-Balad, entered the city’s neighborhoods and established a center to settle the status of wanted persons there.
Western countryside settlements
The settlements reached the western countryside of Daraa through the towns of al-Yadudah and al-Muzayrib, following agreement among the Central Committee in the western region and the notables of the region with the government security services in the presence of the Russian military police.
The town of al-Yadudah is the western entrance to the city center of Daraa and is surrounded by a number of military units.
While the town of Tafas reached a settlement agreement between the notables of the clans and the Central Committee in the western region on September 16.
The settlements reached the town of Tel Shehab on the Syrian-Jordanian border on September 21, after an agreement with the residents of the area. Under the agreement, the government forces were able to reach the border near Tel Shehab and set up military checkpoints there.
On September 30, the status of 291 civilians and 51 military residents of Nawa, Sheikh Saad, Adwan, Sukkariyeh and Jubailiya were settled. During the settlement, dozens of light weapons were handed over.
Strategic border triangle
During the past three years, Iranian-backed factions tried to reach the Syrian-Jordanian-Israeli triple frontier.
These factions worked to attract the residents of the area and recruited them in their favor, but the hopes of these factions were soon shattered at the first test, which is the siege of Daraa al-Balad and the surrounding neighborhoods in an attempt to storm them.
After these developments and completing Daraa al-Balad issue, the government forces, accompanied by the Russian MP, headed to Yarmouk Basin area.
On September 26, a center was established to settle the situations of wanted persons in the town of Shajara, the center of the Yarmouk Basin area. The settlement included the villages of Koya, Mariya, and al-Qusayr. All of these villages are on the Syrian-Jordanian-Israeli border strip.
A day before, the government forces settled the status of dozens of residents in the towns of Sahem al-Golan, Hit, Jilin, Masaken Galin and al-Muzayra’a.
The last phase of the settlements was in Yarmouk Basin area on September 28 in the town of Tsil, which lasted for two days.
Daraa northern countryside
On October 3, the security services of the government forces conducted settlement processes for hundreds of wanted persons in the town of Jassem in the northern countryside of Daraa. The settlements included the residents of the town of al-Hara and the town of Namar.
On October 5, the settlement carried out by the government forces reached the town of Inkhil, before heading to implement settlement in al-Sanamain town on October 8, the last town in the northern countryside of Daraa.
With the end of the settlements in Daraa and the passage of more than a month from the implementation of the agreement, the clause related to the release of detainees and clarify the fate of the missing, which was scheduled to start five days after the implementation of the agreement, has not yet begun, according to the Central Committee in Daraa.