New Rulers Appoint Foreign Terrorists to Military

Syrian Resistance Front Declares War on HTS

Date: 30 December 2024 - 22:17

News ID: ۱۳۵۳۰۹

DAMASCUS (Dispatches) -- A newly-formed Syrian resistance front has issued its first statement against the country’s new rulers, stating that the Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) is exercising the “Wahhabi law of swords on necks.”
The statement said the HTS administration has perpetrated various malicious acts, including thefts, violations of human rights, violent riots, corruption, chaos, sabotage and destruction of public properties ever since it took over the capital Damascus on December 8.
“We have also seen the Hollywood films they made in the Saydnaya prison to draw public opinion and popular support, manipulating the minds of those who believed in naivety and shared the lies,” the statement read.
They were assisted in their disinformation campaign by Israeli media outlets and certain channels from the Persian Gulf region, forgetting about the plight of Palestinian prisoners in the Israeli regime’s detention centers, and the ongoing war of extermination in Gaza, it added.
“We expected from day one that the future of Syria after 12/8 would be dark for its people, and we said that the Wahhabi law of swords on necks” had come, it said.
“Some believed us at the time, while others continued to dance in delight at the imaginary ‘freedom’ to the tunes of the Israeli bombing that did not stop for several nights, coinciding with an Israeli incursion and violation of the territorial integrity and national sovereignty,” it added.
The statement said the HTS administration utterly ignored Israeli bombardments, until Maher Marwan, appointed as governor of Damascus after the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s government, announced a few days ago that the new rulers in Syria have no issues with the occupying Tel Aviv regime, and are ready to receive and implement orders from the Zionist entity.
“Indeed, the Zionist ‘Wahhabi’ project began killing the sons of the Syrian nation in the streets, homes and farms with the bullets of the HTS administration, the government of terrorist gangs, unjustly and aggressively, without any legitimate religious or legal justifications.
“The decision to shed human blood is made by asking a question or by looking at an identity, and starving and besieging residential areas and bombing them with the children, women inside under the pretext of pursuing the remnants of the [Assad] regime. What kind of remnants are these and what false pretexts make you bomb homes over the heads of their inhabitants?
“There is nothing strange about these actions because whoever taught under Zionist and takfiri ideologies will do whatever the Israeli military does in occupied Palestine, where the forces bomb a building populated by civilians and kill several civilians under the pretext of pursuing resistance fighters,” the statement said.
The Syrian resistance front underlined that the insistence of armed gangs affiliated with the HTS administration on committing massacres against Syrian people will be met with targeting terrorist elements and leaders.
The front also stated that it has many surprises in store, and young Syrians are capable of reaching out to the HTS rulers in the middle of Damascus.
“We call on all concerned parties inside and outside Syria to force the terrorist administration represented by Abu Muhammad al-Julani to stop its criminal operations against the Syrian people, so that a bloodbath does not occur, which is now just around the corner with the escalation of their terrorism and criminality.
“We are still waiting for the bloodshed
to stop so that we won’t be branded as instigators of sedition. We only want Syria to be Arab and independent, as it was for all strata of our society,” it stated.
The new rulers in Syria have installed some foreign militants including Uighurs, a Jordanian, and a Turk in the country’s armed forces, two Syrian sources said Monday.
The move to give official roles, including senior ones, to several takfiri terrorists is set to alarm foreign governments and Syrian citizens fearful about the new administration’s intentions.
The sources said that out of a total of almost 50 military roles announced by the HTS defense ministry on Sunday, at least six had gone to foreigners.
Thousands of foreigners joined takfiri terrorists early in the 13-year war on Syria.
Some foreign fighters formed their own armed groups while others joined established formations such as Daesh as it rampaged across Iraq and Syria, briefly declaring a so-called caliphate.
Syria’s new rulers, drawn mainly from HTS, have indicated that foreign fighters and their families may be given Syrian citizenship and be allowed to stay in the country because of their contributions to the fight against Assad.
The HTS defense ministry on Sunday announced 49 appointments to the army that included leaders of key Syrian armed factions.
Among them were several foreign fighters, three given the rank of brigadier-general and at least three others the rank of colonel, a Syrian military source said.
Chinese Uighur Abdulaziz Dawood Khudaberdi, also known as Zahid and the commander of the separatist Turkistan Islamic Party’s (TIP) forces in Syria, was appointed a brigadier-general, a TIP statement said and the Syrian military source confirmed.
Two other Uighur fighters, Mawlan Tarsoun Abdussamad and Abdulsalam Yasin Ahmad, were given the rank of colonel, said the TIP statement published on its website, congratulating them and the Uighur community on the appointments.
The TIP is thought to have hundreds of fighters in Syria and aims to establish a Dash state in parts of China and central Asia, where there is a large Uighur Muslim population.
Turkish citizen Omar Muhammed Jaftashi and Jordanian citizen Abdul Rahman Hussein al-Khatib were also made brigadier-generals, the Syrian military source and the HTS source said.
Abdul Jashari, an ethnically Albanian fighter also known as Abu Qatada al-Albani, was appointed colonel, the military source said.
Jashari heads the Albanian takfiri group Xhemati Alban and was designated a terrorist by the U.S. Treasury in 2016.
Egyptian Alaa Muhammad Abdel-Baqi was also given a military rank, the source said.