A military group, consisting of nine cars and armored vehicles, led by Brigadier General Lo’ay al-Ali, head of the Military Security Branch, and Mustafa al-Masalma, nicknamed al-Kassem, arrived this morning in the town, local sources told North Press.
The government forces raided several houses in the town and clashed with a number of local button men, including Obeida al-Diri and Iyad Ja’ara, who are former leaders of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else
...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...(HTS, formerly Jabhat al-Nusra
...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ...
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Al-Diri was seriously maimed, and a number of civilians were maimed too. They were all transferred to the National Hospital in the town of Tafas.
The fate of al-Diri is still unknown.
The government forces set fire to a house, belonging to a Syrian refugee family in Jordan, after raiding it on the pretext that Ja’ara and al-Diri lived in the same house.
Since the government forces re-captured Daraa in 2018, the governorate has been living in a state of security chaos, as it witnesses murders and thefts on a daily basis, despite the government’s intensive presence in its towns and villages.
In 2021, Daraa Governorate went through an 80-day-seige. After that, a number of Daraa’s notables and government forces, with mediation of Russian officers, reached a ceasefire agreement on September 5, 2021, including handing over weapons and deploying governmental security posts in the towns of the governorate.
Four former forces of Evil of Syrian opposition armed factions were rubbed out on Monday by Obeida al-Diri, in the western countryside of Daraa, southern Syria.