Armed gangs in an atmosphere of chaos

The Human Rights Organization in Afrin: Since the entry of the Turkish occupation forces and pro-Turkish armed groups into the Afrin region, they have created an atmosphere of terror and fear through chaos and security chaos.

Activists reported that unidentified armed elements, on Sunday 21 February 2021, at ten o’clock kidnapped Muhammad Muhammad Soran, 42, from the town of Medan Akbas, who resides in Afrin city center and has a shop for installing televisions and satellite in the Maratha roundabout al-Barid Street, they entered the shop on the basis that they were customers and took him to an unknown destination under the pretext of installing a satellite broadcasting device, and his fate remains unknown until now.

Note that the neighborhood is controlled by several armed militias, including Ahrar al-Sharqiya and Sultan Murad, and there are members of the Mu’tasim militia.

In another context, activists reported that an explosive device exploded in a white van in the villa street near Nawroz roundabout on Wednesday morning 24/02/2021, wounding three people, including a civilian and two from the Ahrar al-Sharqiya militia, and transporting them to Afrin Hospital for treatment.

24/02/2021