SNA faction assaults Kurdish civilian in Syria’s Afrin
AFRIN, Syria (North Press) – Militants of Ahrar al-Sharqiya faction, affiliated with Turkish-backed armed opposition factions, aka Syrian National Army (SNA), assaulted on Sunday a civilian in the town of Jindires, Afrin region, northwest Syria.
A source told North Press that a military group affiliated with the Ahrar al-Sharqiya faction, accused of killing four people of a Kurdish family on Newroz eve, raided a barber shop where a 19-year-old, Nazmi Othman, works with the aim of assassinating him.
On the eve of Newroz, on March 20, the new year that is celebrated by Kurds all over the world, militants of Ahrar al-Sharqiya carried out a systematic crime in Jindires, shooting to death five civilian Kurds, four from one family – Farah al-Din Othman, 43, Nazmi, 38, Muhammad Nazmi, and Muhammad – and wounding a child, for igniting the Newroz flame, which is a key ritual of celebrating the holiday, in front of their house.
Othman is a relative of the killed four people by the Turkish-backed group.
The militants beat and assaulted Othman after trying to run over him while chanting “this is the price,” the source added.
The young man was taken to Akhrabat hospital in the town of Atmeh, north of Idlib, northwest Syria, as he was seriously injured, according to the source.