(3 Jan 2025)
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Homs – 3 January 2025
1. Tank moving on road
2. Various of security personnel on tank
3. New Syrian government security forces deployed on street
4. Syrian security forces checking IDs
5. Syrian security forces entering a building
6. Various of new government forces searching a house
7. Top shot of new government forces deployed in alley
8. Security member watching arrested people
9. Confiscated weapons in military vehicle, arrested people in background
10. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Abu Omar (no last name given), security member of new government:
“We are carrying out security raids in order to arrest these wanted people who escaped the reconciliation process, and we are only searching for weapon and ammunition. These are soldiers, officers and volunteers of Bashar Assad’s regime.”
11. Security patrolling
12. Hezbollah books on the ground
13. Various of security forces firing in the air
14. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Abu Taleb Jabal, soldier in Talha brigade:
“We targeted officers who refused the reconciliation and confiscated a large amount of weapons in these alleys from those who refused to give up their weapons. Today, we will continue the campaign until safety and security prevails in the whole city of Homs.”
15. Vehicle with detainees driving away
STORYLINE:
Security forces of the new de facto authorities in Syria continued their search for militants affiliated with ousted President Bashar Assad in the city of Homs on Friday, officials said.
The forces over the past few weeks have raided and arrested security officials who they said worked under Assad’s notorious web of intelligence and security branches.
Officials said they detained Assad loyalists who refused to turn in their weapons over to the new authorities.
On Thursday, state media reported, citing a military official, that the new de facto authorities led by Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham had set up centres in Syria’s third largest city for former soldiers and militants to hand over their weapons, similar to 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.
In a show of force, the security forces were seen firing into the air as they were deployed in alleyways in Homs.
“We will continue the campaign until safety and security prevails in the whole city of Homs,” said Abu Taleb Jabal, a member of Talha brigade.
AP video shot by Ghaith Alsayed
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