Sources revealed last week that Islamist rebels had arrested militants from the Iranian Revolutionary Guards near Aleppo, Syrian north.
A resident from border village with Turkey, who refused to mention his village name, confirmed that an Iranian captive is captured by an Islamist battalion, and another source confirmed that 10 Iranian captives were at Islamist group in Aleppo.
Sources expressed their surprise for not announcing about the captives by the Islamist groups, and wondered about the reasons behind not requesting freeing them by the Iranian Foreign Affair Ministry.
On the other hand, sources from the Syrian National Coalition denied their knowledge of the Iranian captives at some revolutionary or Islamist groups, and the source explained the Iranian silence as a way to avoid media and public pressure on Iran which might help the rebels to force the Syrian regime to accept detainees exchange between regime and rebels.
Talks about Iranian captives in North of Syria support the fact that Iran is involved in regime’s war against its people.
Meanwhile, Assad's army, backed by local militia and Lebanese Hezbollah fighters, has made steady gains around Damascus and in the Lebanese border areas, but his forces remain stretched and rebels have sought to seize the initiative elsewhere.
Syria's three-year civil war has killed more than 150,000 people, a third of them civilians, and caused millions to flee.
Translation by Yusra Ahmed
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