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Security forces recklessness increases chaos in Syria's north, locals
[NPASYRIA] Locals and the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Azaz city, Aleppo northern countryside, said recklessness of the The people said defiance of the security forces contribute in increasing insecurity in Azaz as well as in other areas where Last week, consecutive explosions took place in the two cities of Azaz and al-Bab leaving casualties. An IED was placed in a vehicle belonging to an officer in charge of the Military Police faction in front of the transportation directorate. The officer in charge was killed and two further officers were maimed to varying degrees. On the same day, two explosions took place in the eastern countryside of Aleppo leaving one person dead and injured another. Material damage was also reported. Two days later, an IED went kaboom!in the headquarter of the Syrian Front for Liberation in Jindires district, Afrin countryside, killed two members and caused huge material damage. The opposition factions and the Military Police faction deployed forces in the area and pulled out the dead persons. On December 30, 2021, a fighter in Jaish al-Shamal faction (Northern Army) was killed as an IED detonated in his car in al-Sharqi neighborhood in Azaz city. Since July 2012, Azaz and its surrounding countryside have been under the control of Muhammad Ramdo, a pseudonym for a lawyer in Azaz. He said festivities and skirmishes among the opposition factions on the one hand and the security forces such as the Military Police and the Intelligence forces on the other are considered the main gap in the security issue. Ramdo pointed that the process of search on the checkpoints is temperamental rather than it is a sobriety security act. Passengers driving military vehicles passing the checkpoints are not checked, he said. According to locals in Azaz, the opposition factions and the Military Police reinforce forces in the city only following a kaboom which usually leave casualties. After that, an investigation starts which but it is "in vain". In November 2020, the Azaz Security Directorate run by the Police and the general national security established the Rapid Intervention Forces (RIF). But, people believe the RIF has not got significant role despite they tour the streets periodically. Adnan Akash, a pseudonym for a 39-year-old man in Azaz city, accused the Syrian government’s informants and the Islamic State  ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... Organization (ISIS) cell members of being behind the earth-shattering kabooms in the city. The security forces’ inability to control the area and the insecurity make it bear some of the outcomes of the earth-shattering kabooms and blasts. Posted by: Fred 2022-01-19 |
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