for not giving “International Coalition” pretext to advance towards them | Regime’s security services arrest about 23 local members of Iranian militias in seven villages east of Euphrates

Deir Ezzor province: Patrols of the regime’s security services carried out a wide-scale arrest campaign in the seven villages: Al-Salihiyah, Hatlah, Khasham, Marat, Tabiyah, Mazloum and Al-Huseiniyah, which are held by the regime forces and in which local members of the Iranian militias are limited deployed east of the Euphrates in Deir Ezzor countryside.
The campaign targeted about 23 local members of the Iranian militias, including former members who had joined the Iranian militias several years ago. The wide-scale arrest campaign was followed by a wide deployment of Russian forces in the area. It is noted that these are the only villages in the eastern Euphrates region over which the regime forces have full control.
These arrests aim to reduce the role of Iranian militias in these villages so that this does not become a pretext for targeting them or advancing towards them and occupying them by the “International Coalition” forces.
The arrest campaign came after the arrival of military reinforcements of the regime forces and Russian forces to Khasham and the outskirts of Al-Tabiyah.
According to SOHR sources, these reinforcements are to reduce the number of Iranian militias present in those areas and limit the bombing of the “International Coalition” forces of those areas, which was accompanied by a state of discontent and anger from the residents, who demanded that the Syrian and Russian authorities send fighters from the regime forces under Russian protection to these villages in order to spare them from the daily repeated bombing by the “International Coalition” forces, at the same time, for not having any pretext by the “International Coalition” forces to occupy them.