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| HTS jihadists in east Damascus offer to dissolve into ‘moderate’ rebel ranks |
| 2017-08-03 |
| [ALMASDARNEWS] The leadership for Ha’yat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) in Damascus’ East Ghouta region has published a statement saying that the local jihadist chapter was ready to disband itself and allow its fighters to be merged into the ranks of other myrmidon groups for the purposes of creating a combined operations room. The one condition for doing this, HTS stated, was that all other myrmidon groups in eastern Damascus had to be willing to dissolve themselves as well. This offer comes after recent news about East Ghouta’s Faylaq al-Rahman faction asking HTS to withdraw from areas it controlled close to their own territory. The reason for this was that Russian had offered ‐ as part of a new ceasefire deal ‐ to end all airstikes against Faylaq al-Rahman if it could separate its ranks from the ranks of HTS (which is an internationally-designated terrorist organization). |
| Posted by:Fred |