Iranian Militias South of Syria's Aleppo Pressure Citizens to Leave Homes
Iranian militias are using sound bombs in areas south of Syria’s Aleppo “to terrorize citizens and force them to leave their homes,” said local sources.
They accused the militias of
seizing people’s homes to use them as military headquarters or hideouts for
some of their leaders.
They pointed to the recent
escalation of violence by Iranian militias in the southern countryside of
Aleppo, in an attempt to “expand their control by seizing more homes, lands and
real estate and displacing citizens.”
The militias have seized
agricultural lands, homes, warehouses and even entire villages on the pretext
of “pursuing terrorists.”
According to the opposition Ain
al-Furat news network, the militias launch dozens of “highly explosive” sound
bombs on citizens’ homes every day.
Iranian militias have recently
stepped up their strategic activities in several areas.
They are buying real estate in
three main regions, namely Eastern Ghouta in the countryside of Damascus in the
western countryside of Homs, the Qusayr area on the border with Lebanon and in
Deir Ezzor in the Albu Kamal region on the borders with Iraq.
New reinforcements for the
militias arrived from southern Hama a few days ago in the eastern and southern
countryside of Aleppo.
The convoys included more than 400 Lebanese, Iraqi and foreign fighters with about 35 armored vehicles, five trucks loaded with ammunition, artillery and short-range rocket launchers.
