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Syrian regime 'opened road' to ISIS in eastern countryside of Hama: document

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed)

A confidential document issued by the Syrian regime Intelligence, branch 291, in 2014, showed that Syrian army had deliberately facilitated the cross of Islamic State fighters into the countryside of Salamiyeh city in Hama province where the extremist group carried out savage killing campaign in the predominantly Ismaili stronghold.

The document, which issued in 27/4/2014, mentioned that around 23 members of the Islamic State (ISIS) had arrived on Saturday 26/4/2014 to Alsatahiyat area in Salamiyeh’s countryside, the regime-controlled area, confirming that members had passed the barriers along Raqqa-Homs route coming from Raqqa city to stop at a point in Khonifis, while their car was not inspected all the way long.

The report mentioned that ISIS’s members had reached to a point near Alsatahiyat where other members met them and took them to the area.

The importance of the report was the indication of possible cooperation between the Syrian regime and the Islamic State (ISIS) to facilitate the state's entering Salamiyeh to force people to support regime against ISIS that invaded their areas.

The intelligence’s report mentioned that ISIS’s members were well-trained of different nationalities who came to Salamiyeh to perform suicide-bombing and controlling Salamiyeh and countryside.

“This is the second batch of ISIS’s fighters within less than a month as 16 members entered the city 3 weeks ago in similar way”, very serious and warning statement mentioned in the report.

The report coldly ended in warning about the seriousness of the situation on the country stability and security.

Salamiyeh and countryside witnessed many attacks by ISIS, where the regime was not serious in facing them leaving people to their fate facing the Islamic State.

Despite the spread of the National Defence Forces’ and other regime’s militias in the city, they had not faced ISIS enough to protect people, and Almabojah village’s attack was an example of the carelessness of regime’s forces in protecting people, where more than 50 people including children and women were killed by ISIS’s attack, but small number of regime’s militias members were killed.

 

Zaman Al Wasl
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