{"id":125608,"date":"2025-05-12T19:28:36","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T19:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/?p=125608"},"modified":"2025-05-12T19:31:31","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T19:31:31","slug":"syrian-security-arrests-high-ranking-former-regime-pilots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/125608\/","title":{"rendered":"Syrian Security Arrests High-Ranking Former Regime Pilots"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>By Kardo Roj<\/strong>\u00a0<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>DAMASCUS, Syria (North Press) \u2013<\/strong> Syria\u2019s General Security Directorate announced on Monday the arrest of three prominent former military pilots in the Damascus countryside for alleged involvement in \u201ccrimes against Syrians\u201d under the previous regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to Syria\u2019s state-run Al-Ikhbariya TV, the Ministry of Interior confirmed that security forces detained Major General Fayez Hussein Ibrahim, Brigadier General Khaled Mohammad Al-Ali, and Brigadier General Abduljabbar Mohammad Halabiya in rural Damascus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Media outlets reported that Ibrahim, the former commander of al-Dumayr Military Airport, was arrested alongside three other pilots in the Adra al-\u2018Umaliyya area. Among them was the former commander of al-Kiswah and al-Khalakhleh military airports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The arrests mark a rare move by the current transitional authorities to hold figures from the former regime accountable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Kardo Roj\u00a0 DAMASCUS, Syria (North Press) \u2013 Syria\u2019s General Security Directorate announced on Monday the arrest of three prominent former military pilots in the Damascus countryside for alleged involvement in \u201ccrimes against Syrians\u201d under the previous regime. According to Syria\u2019s state-run Al-Ikhbariya TV, the Ministry of Interior confirmed that security forces detained Major General [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":125609,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-syria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Syrian Security Arrests High-Ranking Former Regime Pilots<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"By Kardo Roj\u00a0 DAMASCUS, Syria (North Press) \u2013 Syria\u2019s General Security Directorate announced on Monday the arrest of three prominent former military\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, 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