IRGC holds meeting to ramp up attacks on SDF in Syria’s Deir ez-Zor
DEIR EZ-ZOR, Syria (North Press) – Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) held on Monday a quadrilateral meeting, in the Vilat neighborhood in Deir ez-Zor Governorate, eastern Syria, to discuss ways to attack the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
Leaders of the IRGC, Lebanese Hezbollah, the National Defense Forces (NDF), and Sons of Jazira and Euphrates Movement attended the meeting, a military source of the IRGC told North Press.
The Sons of Jazira and Euphrates Movement are engaged in military and paramilitary actions in eastern Syria. The militia mainly fights the SDF and aims at reinforcing Arab tribal power.
The source said the meeting was requested by both Azzoz al-Zara and Karim al-Jabbar, leaders of the Jazira and Euphrates Movement, to support the Movement and provide it with military equipment and vehicles to ramp up infiltration operations against the SDF in the eastern bank of the Euphrates.
The IRGC agreed to supply the so-called “Tribal Army” with weapons and ammunition to hit posts of the SDF in condition that they document these operations by head-mounted cameras, besides wearing uniforms of the NDF, which is affiliated with the Syrian government forces, the source further added.
The source pointed out that the “Tribal Army” has to raise flags of the NDF on their posts and vehicles to “avoid clashes with local people.”
Leaders of the Lebanese Hezbollah, in coordination with leaders of the Jazira and Euphrates Movement, will direct and provide military consultancy to attacks and infiltration operations against the SDF.
They will also deploy spies to gather intelligence within the SDF-held areas, the source, who attended the meeting, noted.
AANES-held areas, particularly Deir ez-Zor, witness systematic provocations by trained groups aim to destabilize the area and to target the SDF posts, in addition to sowing discord among local people.