New pro-Assad force in
the works for east Syria
Days after US-backed forces announced the start of a long-anticipated drive toward Raqqa, a recruiting call has gone out for the Mobilization Forces of the Euphrates and Jazira.
BEIRUT - Days after US-backed forces announced the start of a long-anticipated drive toward Raqqa, a recruiting call has gone out for a new pro-regime militia ostensibly slated to operate in northern and eastern Syria.
A number of pro-Assad media outlets on Tuesday
posted an advertisement for the “Mobilization Forces of the Euphrates and Jazira,” the latter term an old designation for the Hasakeh province under the de-facto control of Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD).
The terse announcement called on natives of the Deir Ezzor, Hasakeh and Raqqa provinces to gather in central Damascus’ Veterans Hall on Thursday for the “launch of the military formation against ISIS and other armed groups,” without elaborating further which other factions it aimed to target.
Recruiting call for Mobilization Forces of the Euphrates and Jazira. (Facebook/Syria.alebaa.SY) As of yet, there is no public information on what apparatus of the Syrian government is behind the new militia, while its recruiting call says the force was being formed by the “Popular Initiative of the People of the Euphrates and Jazira.”
Enab Baladi
reported that the Riyad Arsan was responsible for running the Mobilization Forces of the Euphrates and Jazira, however the pro-rebel outlet was unable to provide any information on the Deir Ezzor native who now lives in Syria’s capital.
В Дамаске были распространены листовки с призывом к уроженцам провинций Дей-эз-Зор, Хасака и Ракка собраться в четверг в Доме Ветеранов в Дамаске для создания военного подразделения предназначенного для ведения боевых действий против ИГИЛ и других террористических группировок на севере и востоке Сирии.
Создание нового добровольческого подразделения поручено уроженцу города Дейр-эз-Зор Рияду Арсану.
https://now.mmedia.m…east-syriaЗы. Интересное направление мысли. Как мне представляется. Особенно в плане Ракки и ДэЗа.