A screenshot from the video
A unit of the Maghawir al-Thawra militant group, funded and trained by the US-led coalition in the al-Tanf zone, has surrendered to the Syrian Army with all of its weapons and equipment.
تسلیم شدن گروهی از تروریست های مغاویر الثورة که مستقیما تحت فرمان آمریکا بودند.
این کار ضربه بزرگی به آمریکا بود pic.twitter.com/4z1tqrq3TC— سوریه به فارسی (@SYRIANTOPERSIAN) April 14, 2020
The Russian Defense Ministry commented on the situation by saying that a total of 27 members of the militant group surrendered to the Syrian Army. Their weapons and equipment included 9 vehicles, 11 weapons including 4 heavy machine guns and 5 grenade launchers, as well as up to 7,000 rounds of various calibers for small arms, more than 20 RPG rounds, and 6 high-tech communication devices.
UPDATE: The official propaganda of Maghawir al-Thawra has own version of events:
The videos and images allegedly showing Maghaweir al-Thowra vehicles are false. Those are not Maghaweir al-Thowra vehicles. A well known drug smuggler left the 55km area today, along with approximately 25 of his family members.
— مغاوير الثورة (@MaghaweirThowra) April 14, 2020
A few of his family belonged to the Maghaweir al-Thowra. They left as well. We did not forbid this. If one wishes to leave we do not force them to stay. There is much misinformation about this situation.
— مغاوير الثورة (@MaghaweirThowra) April 14, 2020
hahaha these dumbass headchoppers are taking lessons from the Saudi toadheads, good news and hopefully this will snowball. Hezbollah needs more new Toyota hi-lux.
Some of them requested to go to Idlib with the famous green buses. They could use the US training to assist HTS in the upcoming SAA offensive. Syria has to be very careful with them.
If they are Syrians put them in work camps,if any are Foreign execute the bastards.
Best not to behave like Americans.
Whehehehe. Good job Comrades. ;)
very nice and smart move to surrender and join the good guys
Smugglers. Now there’s a promising career path in these times.
The explanation given by MaT group is laughable. :P
I had a hard time trying to.make sense of it, I gave up lol
I don’t know what’s going on but I do know that if the Kurds have any sense, they will have struck a quiet deal to defect to the Syrian government as soon as American Caesar is busy elsewhere.
“6 high-tech communication devices.”
I doubt that these are the latest / greatest but they still could be a valuable intelligence coup.
Ha, nice PR damage-control by Maghawir al-Thawra. It’s probably half-true, as they likely were drug-smugglers. But everyone knows these terrorist groups don’t really care about ethics, they’re quite happy to use drugs as a way to make money.
They probably left because the group has no future. They made their money and left while they still could.