A new armed hand from Iran in the region? What do we know about the group that appeared in the south of Syria

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Just a month after the collapse of the Bashar Assad regime in Syria, the name “Southern Front of Liberation” became part of the media circulation, which became part of the media circulation occurring in the southern part of Syria.

The front made the first statement, warning the Israeli forces in the south of Syria to leave within 48 hours and threatening to confront them military terms if they did not.

On January 11, the name was changed to the “Islamic Resistance Front in Syria – Awli Al -Baas”, where the group announced in the midst of great conflicting information about its origin, affiliation and goals.

The American magazine Newsweek published a report in which he quoted Olya al-Baas as a “new resistance in Syria”, standing in front of Israel and the “American axis of evil”. The magazine quoted a new group, which said that “it is not connected with any axis” and contradicts “various professions in Syria, Israeli and Turkish.”

Comparisons of the slogans and symbols between the symbols of the union forces of Iran and the symbols of the union forces of Iran, such as the Hezbollah brigades in Iraq, as well as the Zainabiyoon and Fatemiyoon brigade, as an official indication of the group association with Iran and their project.

The group took responsibility for a series of clashes inSouth Syria, in particular in the provinces of Daraa and Quiner, the first of which in early February, when the Israeli forces are incredible in the city of Taranja, in the northern rural quinter, were shot dead, and Israeli soldiers retreated under strong fire and air coating. “

Subsequently, Olai al-Baas said that four of his combatants were killed in clashes between Israeli troops and residentsThe city is koyaIn the countryside, Daraa, while the Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that six Syrian citizens were killed by shots of Israeli forces.

Since the fall of the Assad regime, the Hebrew State Army has entered the vast regions of Southern Syria, in the provinces of Daraa and Quinche. Israeli wars are almost constantly fulfilling the planesAgainst the military facilities that belonged to the old regime and are currently under the control of the new Syrian government, headed by Ahmad al-Sharaa.

On December 10, the Israeli army began the largest air campaign in its history, announcing that “350 fighters participated in the destruction of 80% of the ground and marine abilities of the Syrian army.”

In an interview EuronewsThe source that accompanies the southern dossier of Syria, who ordered anonymity, said that the so-called police “Olul Al-Baas” does not have an organized body or organizational structure, and so far it is more “case of the media” than something else.

The source says that these groups “could be previous challenges with parties that worked in the southern part of Syria,” and emphasizes that at present they “have not been accepted and have no insurance coating, whether Iran, Hezbollah or others.”

“The first confrontation occurred between the Israeli army and the families of these zones,” the source says, adding that “15 years ago Daraa watched military and safe events, soThe possibility of shooting is very likely. “

The source compares the clashes with “what happens sometimes on the west coast, where confrontation is individual and are not related to which side.” The source emphasizes that the military structure built by IRGC and Hezbollah in the south of Syria was “dismantled for many years, until the recent regional war”, thanks to the “coordination between Russia and the United Arab Emirates with the President of Syria, which overthrew Bashar Assad, who pressed Iranians and Hezbollah in the departure and to this area of ​​the border zone.”

Hezbollah was the first to use the name Ola al-Baas, the term found in the Qur’an at the end of last year. The name was given in his last battle with Israel, which lasted two months from September to November 2024 after the murder of the leader of Hezbollah Hassan Nasell.

Speaking with EuronewsKhaleda al-Mahamid, one of the most outstanding political entities in the southern part of Syria, describes the militia “Olul al-Baas” as “media and an individual case” and emphasizes that “the southern people as a whole cannot accept the Israeli occupation.”

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“These people can be motivated to create a battle with a windmill,” Al-Mahamid said, adding that the current situation “does not allow big battles against Israel.”

“Those who resisted recent clashes are residents of the district and are not related to any organization or a jihadist group,” he said.

“Israeli forces fall into the villages and revise them until the retreat,” said al-Mahamid, adding that he believes that “popular resistance” can arise if everything develops, and the occupation continues what he does. “

This southern region of Syria was one of the hottest areas of the last fifteen years, and individual weapons are widespread among the population, especially more than the main element of the social fabric of the region is the presence of tribes.

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The statute of the “Front of Islamic Resistance in Syria – Ola al -Baas” remains unusual, especially in the area where all the reasons for confrontation with Israeli forces coincide between individual and collective causes. Nevertheless, the acceleration of events in Syria can hurry with the explanation of the picture and new remnants in the south of Syria, both in relation to “Awli Al-Baas” and others.