Tension in Syria’s Daraa countryside continues
DARAA, Syria (North Press) – A state of tension has prevailed in the town of Qarfa in the eastern countryside of Daraa, south Syria, after members of government security apparatuses and forces stormed the town following attempts by parents of forcibly disappeared individuals to determine the fate of their children who have been detained by pro-government public committees for three years.
Members of pro-government public committees have recently been threatened by families of those individuals who have been detained since 2018 by the public committees (known as Imam al-Ghazali Brigade), local sources in the town told North Press.
Tension began following stormings by security apparatuses during which they arrested 17 individuals, who have been released under pressure by notables and local residents, they added.
Former members and officials in the public committees have pledged recently to reveal the fate of the 82 missing individuals within two weeks, according to the same sources.
“But they did not fulfill their pledges and the government forces came today to protect them from potential threats.”
The government military checkpoint on the outskirts of Qarfa town arrested four people from the town of al-Sheikh Meskin after they managed to arrest others from Qarfa, other sources said.
The Russian-brokered agreement with Syrian government forces is collapsing and the has reached a “dead end” as a result of the government’s new conditions that have not been previously included in its terms, Adnan al-Mesalma, Centeral Committee spokesman, said on Friday.
Additionally, he said that Russia allowed people to flee from neighborhoods of Daraa al-Balad, Tariq al-Sad, and the camps towards Syrian north and Turkey.