(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 200 former rebels from Damascus suburbs were killed in 2019 fighting along with regime forces on the battlefields of Idlib, Hama and Latakia, local news site said Wednesday.
Voice of The Capital said the slain fighters had agreed on the Russian-brokered reconciliation deal in 2018.
People of the capital’s eastern and western suburbs reject conscription calls but the reconciliation deals have imposed a new de-facto. They should join the army or they might face arrest by the military intelligence, activists say.
The regime army has sent out about 10,000 conscription calls to eastern Ghouta’s young men to perform the military service, despite some names belonging to people killed or displaced, according to the names listed by the General Conscription Department.
Since mid-December, Russian-backed regime forces have pressed with an assault on jihadists in southern Idlib, despite an August ceasefire deal and calls for a de-escalation from the United Nations.
Eight years of war in Syria have killed 560,000 people and driven half the pre-war population of 22 million from their homes, including more than 6 million as refugees to neighboring countries.
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