​​​​​​​panorama of the Week: Damascus Government seeks to re- arrange settlements’ areas

Last week, Arab newspapers touched upon the situation in the Syrian city of Dara 'a

Syrian regime attempts to re-arrange settlements’ areas in Dara 'a

On the Syrian issue, the Middle East newspaper published: "Negotiations have not been reached in the city of Jassim, North Dara 'a, between the official of the Military Security Service of southern Syria, Luai Ali, local leaders and city leaders, to agreement after the regime's negotiating committee insists on the requirement that outsiders accused of belonging to ISIS/Daesh leave the city, The negotiators assert that the city is free of strangers, and that they agree to stand against anyone found to be involved in acts contrary to the general settlement agreement in the region or dealing with ISIS/Daesh. However, the regime's committee repeats the existence of ISIS cells and brandishes the use of military operations if they continue to be in them.

The Dara 'a security services' recruitment of military reinforcements and threats to certain settlement areas known to rebel against the Syrian regime even after the settlements were seen by activists as a new policy followed by these agencies to impose effective control over those areas where their control has been considered formal since they entered the settlement agreement in 2018. Especially after the settlements areas stood on more than one occasion against the security agencies' actions and desires in the region, aimed at arresting former opposition leaders and faction elements, they did not leave most settlement areas in Dara 'a with the application of the settlement agreement, unlike in the rest of Syria, which was subject to the settlement agreement, and most opposition leaders and elements were displaced.

Others pointed out that the military regime's operations threatening the settlements areas recently, as in Tafas, Rural Dara 'a, and taking place in Jassim North, are only a re-arrangement of the settlement between the opposition factions and the Russian side in 2018. The agreement provided for the factions' timely retention of their individual weapons and heavy delivery.

As attempts to violate the settlement agreement continued, and the regime's military positions and posts were subjected to unknown attacks and targeting, the latter found that the weapon that remained with the factions was responsible for carrying out operations against their positions in the settlement areas. In the summer of last year, it tried to put an end to its presence, by threatening military operations or handing over pieces of it, which his Security Committee determined in number from each region, and which of those areas refused, or claimed that there were no weapons to be handed over, were subject to a hefty fine for the amount of the weapon sought. For example, the city of Jassim then paid approximately 50 million Syrian pounds to the Security Committee for non-surrender of weapons and a fine for the absence of the items to be handed over to the Syrian regime.

Because the recent regime operations to impose a new situation in the settlements areas need to justify the Russian guarantor, an ISIS/ Daesh cell in the area and the group's acknowledgement of operations in the southern region, find a case for its operations and impose a new equation on these rebel areas, such as Tafas and Jassim.

The governorate of Dara 'a, southern Syria, suffers from years of insecurity, consisting of near-daily killings and assassinations, targeting former commanders and elements of local opposition factions, other settlement factions that joined the regime's military formations following the settlement agreement, and operations targeting Syrian army and security forces and officers. "

T/ Satt.

ANHA