Clashes in Aleppo: Sudden escalation or game of interests?
The city of Aleppo is witnessing renewed tensions as two separate clashes erupted in two different neighborhoods between components of the General Security forces loyal to the Damascus government and groups that the authorities described as "ISIS/ Daesh cells." Amid this sudden unraveling, questions are being asked: Do we have a new confrontation in front of us, or do the events camouflage calculated moves within broader frameworks?
The clashes erupted in two simultaneous incidents, one of which occurred in the al-Jazmati neighborhood, east of the city, near the Aleppo International Airport road. General Security Directorate sources told SOHR that the aggressors are ISIS mercenary cells, and scattered clashes are still ongoing.
In a similar incident, the same clash led to the same confrontation in al-Haidariya neighborhood, northeast of the city. Reports indicated that two men were killed on both sides, including Mohammed Hijazi, a member of the Damascus-based General Security. Photos also emerged of the detention of one of the attackers by the General Security.
A number of informed sources told us that Damascus-based General Security seized a bus bomb parked on the Aleppo-Damascus international road, in the vicinity of the city of Saraqib, and precisely in the village of Tal Mardikh in the southern countryside of Idlib.
Due to the recent events in the city, the government of Damascus dispatched reinforcements to Aleppo, and flying checkpoints were observed at the entrances of the said neighborhoods and around the international highway.
These are against the backdrop of the recent meeting between Sharaa (head of Syria's transitional government) and Trump (US President) in Saudi Arabia. According to the White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt, Trump requested Syria to do the following five things, as itemized below:
1. Sign the Abraham Accords with Israel.
2. Remove all foreign terrorists from Syria.
3. Remove Palestinian terrorists.
4. Assist the United States in preventing the resurgence of ISIS mercenaries.
5. Assume responsibility for ISIS mercenary detention centers in northern and eastern Syria.
Though observers believe the clashes are more real than a show to gain Western support for a quick legitimacy to combat ISIS mercenaries and accelerate the lifting of European sanctions, which, according to the Damascus regime, are "an obstacle to counterterrorism efforts and the establishment of internal peace."
Others point out that they are an operation to identify foreign elements within the ranks of the Damascus regime's forces, which the regime is seeking to eradicate following that meeting and in implementation of American orders.
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ANHA
Clashes in Aleppo: Sudden escalation or game of interests?
The clashes erupted in two simultaneous incidents, one of which occurred in the al-Jazmati neighborhood, east of the city, near the Aleppo International Airport road. General Security Directorate sources told SOHR that the aggressors are ISIS mercenary cells, and scattered clashes are still ongoing.
In a similar incident, the same clash led to the same confrontation in al-Haidariya neighborhood, northeast of the city. Reports indicated that two men were killed on both sides, including Mohammed Hijazi, a member of the Damascus-based General Security. Photos also emerged of the detention of one of the attackers by the General Security.
A number of informed sources told us that Damascus-based General Security seized a bus bomb parked on the Aleppo-Damascus international road, in the vicinity of the city of Saraqib, and precisely in the village of Tal Mardikh in the southern countryside of Idlib.
Due to the recent events in the city, the government of Damascus dispatched reinforcements to Aleppo, and flying checkpoints were observed at the entrances of the said neighborhoods and around the international highway.
These are against the backdrop of the recent meeting between Sharaa (head of Syria's transitional government) and Trump (US President) in Saudi Arabia. According to the White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt, Trump requested Syria to do the following five things, as itemized below:
1. Sign the Abraham Accords with Israel.
2. Remove all foreign terrorists from Syria.
3. Remove Palestinian terrorists.
4. Assist the United States in preventing the resurgence of ISIS mercenaries.
5. Assume responsibility for ISIS mercenary detention centers in northern and eastern Syria.
Though observers believe the clashes are more real than a show to gain Western support for a quick legitimacy to combat ISIS mercenaries and accelerate the lifting of European sanctions, which, according to the Damascus regime, are "an obstacle to counterterrorism efforts and the establishment of internal peace."
Others point out that they are an operation to identify foreign elements within the ranks of the Damascus regime's forces, which the regime is seeking to eradicate following that meeting and in implementation of American orders.
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ANHA
