Security ‘deteriorates’ in Damascus suburbs as rebels usurp police stations, install paramilitary

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Security ‘deteriorates’ in Damascus suburbs as rebels usurp police stations, install paramilitary
Jun. 22, 2017

Armed gunmen from the Failaq a-Rahman rebel faction reportedly stormed a police station on Sunday in the opposition-held Damascus suburbs, a police spokesman tells Syria Direct.

The rebel fighters drove out the policemen, seized all of their equipment and occupied the building in the latest in a nearly two-month wave of Failaq attacks on East Ghouta police stations and officers.

“It’s chaos here, and things will continue like this so long as Failaq a-Rahman prohibits the police and the judiciary from doing their jobs,”  Mohammad, a spokesman with the East Ghouta Free Police, tells Syria Direct’s Waleed Khaled a-Noufal.

The recent targeting of police officers and their facilities comes amidst an internecine, inter-rebel civil war in the cluster of towns and villages east of Damascus known as East Ghouta. The rebel power struggle dates back to late April and is paralyzing the opposition pocket, home to 400,000 people.

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