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Homs: Russia seeks discord among rebel factions in northern countryside

(Zaman Al Wasl)- While the Russian Ministry of Defense’s announcement on Wednesday the 25th of May of the extension of the period it previously gave to the Syrian opposition factions for them to continue what Moscow calls “their disclaimer from al-Nusra Front” under the title of “National Reconciliation” under the pretense that it received requests from several armed groups, knowledgeable sources passed on the news that what actually happened in some parts of eastern Ghouta area are being attempted in Homs’ northern countryside and other areas.

A dissident officer from the al-Assad regime working in the Homs Corps as a field leader, confirmed to Zaman al-Wasl that what is rumored about reconciliations and decisions with the Russians is pure fabrications and there is nothing like that on the ground. He highlighted that Russia is creating those rumors as part of the false propaganda that was inspired by the al-Assad regime against the unarmed Syrian people since the start of the Syrian revolution.

He added that the decision in Homs’ revolutionary northern countryside and inside Homs, and no one is thinking of this issue, and that the Russians are purposefully spreading these rumors to target the revolutionary ranks, no more, especially after it was unable to break through the fronts that it wanted despite the continued siege and starvation, in the shadow of the countries supporting the Syrian opposition being unable to send aid.

In the same context, Homs corps faction, Homs Liberation Movement, and al-Tawhid Brigade announced in statements their denial about any communication with Russian officials in the framework of any Russian project to form a truce with the regime and transfer the battle to al-Nusra Front.

The factions confirmed that no negotiation with the Russians on any subject except the fall of the regime and even then that is through the efforts of the High Council for Negotiations. They insisted that any Russian intervention in Syria is a blatant act of aggression and a brutal intervention. The factions insisted that they are not engaged in act of selling out in any international operation room.

The Homs Liberation Movement clarified in turn that the Russians and those with them have resorted to planting sedition between brothers in arms. They already tried this cheap method when they created the issue of categorizing the revolutionary factions, and they messed up by placing each of Ahrar al-Sham and Jaysh al-Islam on fraudulent terrorist lists. And today after the success of the truce between the revolutionary factions in Eastern Ghouta suburbs, and with that news falling on their chests like a solid rock, they resorted to moving the sedition to Homs’ northern countryside which defeated the regime militias and the sectarian militias from Iran and Hezbollah, and the Russian forces combined in three military campaigns.

He added that the revolutionary forces in Homs’s northern countryside succeeded and they still stand together tightly bound both militarily and politically, and formation is set on the unity of target, fate, decision, and this is the matter which confused the Russians.

(Translation by Rana Abdul)

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