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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Turkish-backed armed group arrests civilians in Syria's Afrin
2021-05-04
[NPASYRIA] Yesterday, a Ottoman Turkish-backed armed opposition group raided a village northwest of the city of Afrin, northwestern Syria, and arrested two civilians.

"Militants of Liwa al-Waqqas gang arrested Farhaddin Hassan Ibrahim and Yasser Sa’eed Ali from the village of Hekjeh, and took them to unknown destination," a local source told North Press.

"The turbans demanded their families to pay 10,000 Ottoman Turkish lira as a ransom to release them," the source added.

The city of Afrin and its environs, northwest Syria, have been occupied by The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
 and its affiliated armed opposition groups since March 2018.

Areas of Syria held by Ottoman Turkish-backed gangs are witnessing arbitrary detentions and liquidations, accompanied by successive explosions amid the gangs’ inability to control security and stabilize the area.
Posted by:Fred

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