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Assad’s forces, backed by a number of Iranian militiamen, carried out a campaign of arrests a few days ago against dozens of young men in the western Deir Ezzor countryside, (Al-Shamiyah), sources told Deir Ezzor 24 network.
Our correspondent said that the campaign was carried out after the people of the western Deir Ezzor countryside staged demonstrations in Al-Shumeitiyah village and the areas around it, demanding Fatimiyeon and al-Nujabaa militias leave the western Deir Ezzor countryside, after the bloody campaign they carried out against the people of Deir Ezzor, which started with a massacre that resulted in the killing of more than 20 young men, 8 of them are from Deir Ezzor province, al-Busaraya tribe, in Raqqa countryside near the western Deir Ezzor countryside, in response to the killing of Iranian Revolutionary Guard commander Qassem Soleimani.
There are still a state of tension among the people of the western Deir Ezzor countryside, that is under the control of Assad’s forces, because of the retaliatory actions carried out by al-Nujabaa and Fatimiyeon militias, local sources told Deir Ezzor 24 network.
It is indicated that many Iranian militias are deployed in the areas of Deir Ezzor west of the Euphrates to carry out Iranian agenda that aims at occupying the region at all levels.
