Terror/militants in Southern Syria Reject Gov't Peace Offer

Militant groups rejected the Syrian Army's peace offer in Dara'a on Saturday amid the government forces' preparation to launch a large-scale operation in the Southern part of the country.

The army sent a large number of fresh forces and a large volume of military hardware to Dara'a province on Friday, causing the Free Syrian Army (FSA) coalition known as Barkan al-Hareh terrorists to declare Tal al-Hareh a military zone after the army reinvigorated its forces in the Triangle of Death.

The FSA gunmen threatened to face reconciliation representatives that try to approach Tal al-Hareh, preparing for a tough battle with the Syrian Army.

Tal al-Hareh is one of the main strongholds of terrorists in Northern Dara'a whose fall into the army will result in a domino fall of other militant-held region in Dara'a and Quneitra.

In the meantime, field sources reported that the army's artillery units pounded the positions of Tahrir al-Sham Hay'at (the Levant Liberation Board or the Al-Nusra Front) in Busra al-Sham in Eastern Dara'a as after the militants' shelled the town of Ara in Western Sweida.

In a relevant development on Friday, the army's artillery and missile units shelled the defenses of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) and Tahrir al-Sham Hay'at in the Al-Lijat region for the first time in several weeks.

Furthermore, the Syrian Army’s attack was meant to fracture the front-lines of the militants before they launch their long-awaited offensive in Southern Syria.

The Syrian Army has already mobilized thousands of soldiers to participate in the upcoming Southern Syria offensive; however, the majority of these troops have deployed to Quneitra and Sheikh Meskeen region of Dara’a.
  (FNA)
 2/6/18
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