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Syria Police Deploy in South Damascus after IS Defeat
[AnNahar] Syrian police deployed across devastated districts in southern Damascus on Tuesday, according to state media, a day after the government captured the area from the Islamic State...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group. The government on Monday seized the Yarmuk Paleostinian camp and adjacent neighborhoods of Tadamun and Hajar al-Aswad, putting Damascus fully under its control for the first time since 2012. On Tuesday, police units entered Yarmuk and Hajar al-Aswad and planted the two-star Syrian flag there, state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe? reported. It broadcast images of security forces atop a pockmarked multi-story building in Yarmuk where they had hung the national flag. They had also plastered pictures of  Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad Light of the Alawites... and his predecessor and father Hafez. Other coppers gathered in the ravaged streets below and had gun sex in celebration. "The police are present round-the-clock," said one officer interviewed on the state broadcaster. "Special units are deployed across the camp to help any civilians and protect their belongings," he said. It also showed footage from Hajar al-Aswad of a convoy of police cars and cycle of violences making its way through dusty streets lined with crumbling buildings. There were no civilians in sight. Yarmuk, Hajar al-Aswad and the nearby district of Tadamun all lie in a southern pocket of Damascus that had escaped regime control for several years. The government began losing its grip on parts of the capital in 2012, just one year after the conflict in Syria erupted. But it has made a comeback this year, with Assad using a mix of military pressure and evacuation deals to flush rebels and jihadists out of Damascus and its outskirts. His troops and allied Paleostinian fighters turned their sights on Yarmuk and the other IS-held parts of the capital last month. IS overran Yarmuk in 2015, but the massive Paleostinian camp had already been ravaged by years of rebel infighting and government attacks. Syria's army announced it had seized Yarmuk from IS on Monday. Several sources, including the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and a military source close to Damascus, said the capture came after a negotiated withdrawal of IS fighters. The government has denied such a deal. U.N. Says 'Severe Damage' in Syria's Yarmuk Makes Returns Unlikely
Posted by: trailing wife 2018-05-23 |
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