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Deir Al-Zour Airport: Links Between ISIS, Assad Regime

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Perhaps Deir al-Zour and al-Tabaqa military airports in addition to Queires airport reveal the close connections between Assad regime and ISIS and what has been talked of a coordination that serves both parties.

 Al-Tabqa airport was famous for withdrawal of major commanders supported by the confession of loyalists to regime and the evidence of the Youshen which transferred the senior commanders and officers and left the rest of their fate to complete the chapters of "the play" when those left were mass executed by ISIS in a scene that the regime and ISIS made sure to repeat to show an image that serves them both. The image that is distorting the Syrian revolution, activists say.

Al-Tabqa airport fell in August 2014 and left many questions about the relationship between the organization and the regime. However, Deir al-Zour airport remained in the hands of the regime until now, but it was out of service and besieged by the organization that tried to capture it again, But the rules of the game in Deir al-Zour appear to be different from it in Raqqa, the main stronghold of the organization in Syria, which included al-Tabaqa ISIS was expelled by the Syrian Democratic Forces militias backed up by the international coalition.

The two airports are named after Major General 24 and include 45 pilot officers between the ranks of Brigadier General and Majors which Zaman al-Wasl publishes their names within the series Assad pilots death crows.

Deir al-Zour airport at the beginning of the revolutionary movement turned into a detention center, which basically consisted of a detachment of one of the most important branches of intelligence in Assad's air security system.

All the detainees were transferred from the airport of the city, which participated in the revolution from its beginnings to the airports of Mezzeh or Damascus International Airport by the aircraft Antonov 26 or Allochen 76 or even aircraft YAK 40. The detainees were interrogated outside the legal framework in the Air Investigation Branch in Mezzeh, which is run by Brigadier General Abdel Salam Mahmood (from al-Fu'a).



And contributed to the transfer of the prisoners of Deir al-Zour most of the pilots (Brigade 29) specialized in military transport.

One of the officers told Zaman al-Wasl that the detainees were subjected to the most severe forms of torture from the moment they boarded the planes until they arrived in Damascus. They were handcuffed, stressing that some of the detainees had died before reaching Damascus.

Deir al-Zour Airport has witnessed continuous arrests and torture since the revolution began, but the violations of the Assad forces culminated in the presence of Brig. Gen. Bassam Haider as commander of Air Division 24. He was commander of the security zone in Deir al-Zour, Major General Jamil al-Hassan, director of air intelligence.

Many of the airport's officers and pilots were killed, and several others defected. Most of the names included in the list remain until today, most of them accused of crimes against Syrians.

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