IRGC arrests dozens civilians in Syria’s Deir ez-Zor
DEIR EZ-ZOR, Syria (North Press) – On Sunday evening, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) launched a campaign of arbitrary arrests after unknown attackers killed two of its militants in a town in the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor, east Syria.
A military source from the IRGC said the latter arbitrary arrested over 30 civilians from the town of al-Mere’iyah in the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor after two of its militants were killed two days earlier in the town.
On Jan. 28, unknown gunmen riding a motorbike targeted two militants of the IRGC in a barber shop, near their military post in the town.
The source added that the IRGC imposed a three-hour curfew on the town and formed patrols and groups that stormed civil houses and seized individual weapons and cell phones.
In response, residents announced a three-day strike, demanding the release of arrestees and return of the confiscated stuffs as the IRGC deployed several checkpoints on entrances and exits of the town, according to the source.
On Sunday, unknown aircrafts targeted a convoy of six Iranian trucks entered Syria from Iraq and a common checkpoint in Deir ez-Zor countryside, killing and injuring more than ten Syrian soldiers and Iranian-backed militants.