Government forces send military reinforcements to Syria’s Suwayda
Suwayda, Syria (North Press) – Syrian government forces sent military reinforcements to Suwayda Governorate, south Syria, for four consecutive days, after local groups had arrested military and government officials.
The reinforcements – the fourth of their kind – included tanks and over 50 vehicles loaded with hundreds of soldiers, according to local social media accounts.
The local groups arrested the government and military officials on April 25 to press the government forces to release a university student who was arrested by the government forces about three months ago.
On Sunday, the government forces released Danny Abid, a university student who was detained on Feb. 11 while he was at the Faculty of Economic of Tishreen University in Latakia on charges of participating in anti-government protests in Suwayda.
For their part, the local groups had released the detained officials after the arrival of Abid to Suwayda, according to the sources.
The military reinforcements were deployed to the military airports of Khalkhalah and al-Tha’laba, and Regiment 127 – special forces – between the villages of Rsas and al-Afinah, south of Suwayda, security sources told North Press.
In addition, the reinforcements were deployed in regiments 404, 44, 405, and 157.
The new reinforcements backed the branches of military intelligence, state security, political security, air force security, brigade 50, military police, law enforcement, emergency police, and criminal security.