Terrorists Preventing Implementation of Peace Plan between Syrian Army, Militants in Idlib

Terrorists are arresting an increasing number of pro-peace activists in Idlib as the Syrian Army is encouraging militants to join peace with Damascus government, local sources reported on Thursday.

News ID: 71944

Date: 23 August 2018 - 17:30

TEHRAN (Defapress)-The Arabic-language service of Sputnik quoted commander of Russia's Peace Center in Syria Major General Alexi Tsiganov as saying that the terrorists have arrested over 500 pro-peace activists and transferred them to an unknown destination.

Tsiganov also pointed to provocative measures by the terrorists in the region, and said that Tahrir al-Sham Hay'at (the Levant Liberation Board or the Al-Nusra Front) terrorists have voiced their readiness for taking part in military operations against the Syrian army, while rejecting any offers for peace talks.

Meantime, over 1,000 civilians, including women and children, left the terrorist-controlled areas in Idlib toward the Syrian army positions.

The Tahrir al-Sham terrorists are still preventing men and the youth's exit from the areas under their control in order to recruit and prepare them for war against the Syrian army.

In a relevant development earlier in August, the local sources said that the army's helicopters dropped thousands of leaflets over the town of Taftnaz in Northeastern Idlib, calling on militants to surrender to the government forces.

They further said that Tahrir al-Sham Hay'at (the Levant Liberation Board or the Al-Nusra Front) restarted arresting pro-peace people in the villages and towns of Barisa, Ma'ardebsi, Kana'esh, Tal Toqan, Ra'as al-Ein, Samka, al-Barasa, Farvan, Ma'asaran

The sources went on to say that gunmen of the National Liberation Front arrested those militants that tried to sign the peace agreement with the army in the village of Tarmala in Southeastern Idlib and in Northwestern Hama.

Local sources reported last Monday that terrorists of the National Liberation Front captured over fifty pro-peace activists accusing them of links to Damascus government.

The sources further said that the National Liberation Front has dispatched a large number of gunmen to Western and Eastern Hama and kept them on alert as their comrades in Idlib are concerned over the endorsement of a peace plan in their regions.

The Front, meantime, set up more checkpoints in al-Ghaab Plain and Shahshabou in Western Hama.

Turkey has recently ordered a number of terrorist groups to merge and form the National Liberation Front in Northern Syria.

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