Afrin … Dead and wounded as a result of fighting between armed groups

Afrin … Dead and wounded as a result of fighting between armed groups

Aug 26 2018



ARK News: According to private sources from Afrin city that there is a state of tension prevails in the northern Kurdish city of Afrin against the backdrop of renewed fighting between pro-Turkish armed groups and that the reason for the disagreement was about the distribution of looted rations of the Kurdish citizens in the city and the disagreement over areas of influence.

“There were clashes, on Friday evening, in the neighborhood of Mahmudiya, in Afrin city, between elements of the faction, "Ahrar Al-Sharqiya" and gunmen accused of belonging to the "Hayat Tahrir al-Sham," which forms the terrorist Al-Norse Front" its spine, and that the reason for the disagreement was about the distribution of looted rations from Kurdish citizens in Afrin city,” special source from Afrin told to RojavaNews.

“The clashes resulted in the killing of at least two "Ahrar Al-Sharqiya" and the occurrence of injuries from both sides, and the situation is still tense in the neighborhood mentioned so far, the same source told.

"Dozens of people, mostly of pro-Turkish armed groups, organized, on Friday, a protest in the villas area in Afrin, to force the commander of the faction, "the brigade of Sultan Suleiman Shah," called Mohammed al-Jassim to take responsibility, after the spread of a video of a woman accused of rape, for questioning”, the same source added.

Referring that a few days ago there were clashes with light weapons in Afrin city between the elements of "Ahrar al-Sharqiya" and "military police" in the vicinity of the building Saraya, which prompted the Turkish army to send troops to the city to control security.

It is noteworthy that pro-Turkish armed groups, which participated in the occupation of the city of Afrin, committed dozens of crimes against the residents of Afrin, such as murder, kidnapping, robbery, theft, burning crops, and appropriating citizens' property, as well as the destruction of archaeological and religious monuments and deliberately set fire to trees of the forests aimed at destroying the infrastructure of the area. Aand there are always clashes between the armed groups themselves, because of the dispute over the distribution of looted quotas and disagreement over control of vital areas without the intervention of the Turkish army effectively.

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