Following failure of attacks on SDF | IRGC attempts to recruit tribal fighters into affiliated militias

Deir Ezzor province: Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps and regime’s security services have attempted to recruit tribal fighters into Iranian-backed militias following the failure of recent attacks on positions of SDF stationed in villages and towns in areas in east Euphrates region in the Deir Ezzor countryside.

SOHR reported that a meeting was held on August 27 at the military intelligence branch to discuss the recent attacks carried out by local gunmen loyal to Iran led by “Ibrahim Al-Hafl,” where these attacks failed to control over villages in the eastern Deir Ezzor countryside after artillery fire on positions of SDF in the towns and the villages of Abu Hamam, Al-Baseiyrah, Thiban, Dahllah, Jadeed Bakarah, Al-Sabhah and villages near the International Coalition’s base in Al-Omar oil field in eastern Deir Ezzor countryside.

The meeting included “Ibrahim Al-Hafl,” “Nawaf Al-Bashir,” several officers from the security services and leaders from the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps.

The leaders of the groups, tribal fighters and Ibrahim Al-Hafl, who fled from SDF-held areas to areas controlled by regime forces and Iranian-backed militias,  refused to join Iranian-backed militias to participate in the fighting on Idlib, Aleppo and the desert  frontlines as well as against ISIS.

It is worth noting that the condition for their remaining with “Ibrahim Al-Hafl,” the leader of the “Tribal Army,” was to  protect them  from arrest and to fight against SDF in Deir Ezzor.