(2 Jan 2025)
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Homs – 2 January 2025
1. Military vehicles carrying security forces of new government, UPSOUND firing, fighters chanting (Arabic) God the greatest
2. People cheering security forces, machine gun firing
3. Tank moving
4. Plane in the sky
5. Anti-aircraft weapon firing
6. Security forces searching alleys
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Abu Muhammad (last name not given), official at the General Security Department:
“We received information from the residents that there are members of former regime militias here who refused to give up their weapons and were terrorizing the residents. Therefore, since early morning and following the instructions of the leadership and the military operations administration, we followed the members, arrested them and transferred them to the relevant departments.”
8. Various of security forces entering a house and searching it
9. Security forces destroying certificates by Baath party
10. Residents on street
11. Top shot of security forces outside a house
12. Security forces entering a house
13. Security forces searching bags for weapons
14. Security forces putting hunting rifles on a car’s trunk
15. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Dr. Nael Al-Asaad, a resident of Wadi al-Dahab:
“I have two hunting rifles, it has been my hobby long for a time, this is their ammunition, they (security forces of new government) saw it, they saw their licenses. They gave them back to me with full respect. They get to know us, things are good.”
16. Wide of security forces
17. Detainees in truck
STORYLINE:
Syrian security forces and armed vehicles were deployed in the city of Homs Thursday to look for the militants affiliated with ousted President Bashar Assad, state media reported.
They have refused to turn in their weapons to the new authorities.
SANA, citing a military official, said that the new de facto authorities led by Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham had set up centers in Syria’s third largest city for former soldiers and militiamen can turn in their weapons as they have in some other parts of Syria.
In early December, a lightning insurgency took out the decades long rule of Assad in less than two weeks. HTS have since run much of war-torn Syria under the de facto rule of its leader Ahmad al-Sharaa.
Security forces over the past few weeks have raided and arrested security officials who under Assad worked under his notorious web of intelligence and security branches.
AP video by Ghaith Alsayed
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