Thousands of Syrians staged a protest against US occupation forces in the
eastern province of Deir Ezzor to condemn the arrest of 300
anti-terrorist fighters from the Al-Shaitat tribe.
According to reports, demonstrators called for the immediate release
of the tribesmen who have been instrumental in the fight against the
Islamic State (IS) terrorist group, and who were allegedly imprisoned without
charges. For their part, the US and the so-called Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)
maintain the tribesmen were arrested for “collaborating” with the Syrian
government.
Protesters also said that if the prisoners are not released, the protest would
spread across all of Deir Ezzor.
The leaders of the Al-Shaitat clan told reporters that villagers are outraged
by the actions of US occupation forces, who have been consistently kidnapping
their countrymen on charges of working with Russia and the Syrian Arab Army
(SAA).
“All these people who are in SDF custody have in the past years participated in
the fight against Daesh with the support of the Syrian Arab Army,” an
Al-Shaitat leader told reporters.
For years, US occupation troops have been accused of working with
IS militants in Syria and with the western-friendly Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), which reported on their joint activities back in 2017.
“The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that a new airdrop was
carried out in the western countryside of Deir Ezzor by the forces of the
International Coalition (…) reliable sources confirmed to the [SOHR] that the
International Coalition transported members of the “Islamic State organization,”
an SOHR report claimed on 31 August 2017.
It goes on to say that “sources told SOHR that the International Coalition
has been transporting [ISIS] agents and members from areas controlled by
ISIS (…) on helicopters to its headquarters.”
More recently, the US was accused of transporting IS fighters from Syria
to Afghanistan and Iraq.
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