UK – Middle East Monitor, September 14, 2024
The Eighth Brigade of the Military Security Branch (one of the Syrian regime’s security branches) received two Jordanian drivers on Thursday night from a gang supported by the Syrian regime that had kidnapped them 20 days prior on the Damascus-Daraa Road in southern Syria.
Ayman Abu Mahmoud Al-Hourani, a spokesperson for the Horan Free League, a media organisation covering events in southern Syria, told Al-Araby Al-Jadeed that the Eighth Brigade in the city of Busra Al-Sham received the Jordanian drivers on Thursday night after being kidnapped and held hostage for about 20 days in the Lajat area, northeast of Daraa Governorate, in southern Syria.
Al-Hourani noted that the Eighth Brigade will hand them over to the Jordanian authorities within the next few hours, confirming that the drivers, Maher Bashir Al-Sufi and Mahmoud Samih Awida, were handed over with their personal documents and their car by the kidnapping gang in the village of Az-Zubayr in the Lajat area.
