Turkey-backed armed militia kidnaps three civilians in Ras al-Ain

A Turkish-backed armed Islamist militia involved in the Turkish military invasion in northeastern Syria has kidnapped three Syrian-Kurdish civilians as soon they returned to their city of Ras al-Ain (Sere-Kaniye) on Monday.

A local source told North-Press that the armed militia of Sultan-Murad, backed by Turkey, had arrested three civilians from on family “Mullah Suleiman Khayat”, after they had returned to their city, during the period of the regional-international ceasefire.
The source added that the militia of Sultan-Murad had arrested both Abdul Rauf and Abdul Khaliq Mulla Suleiman and their cousin Abdul-Aziz Bahri, who from the Kurdish component of the residents of the city, on the pretext that they have “a complaint without knowing who submitted that complaint.”
The source pointed out that the Turkish-backed militia “did not ask their relatives for any ransom money, as is customary with the abduction of civilians by Turkey-supported groups.”

The source added that one of the kidnapped, “Abdul Raouf Mullah Suleiman”, 55 years old, is a supporter of the Kurdish Party (Yeketi), which is led by Suleiman Osso, also known as the wing of “Fouad Aliko”, who a member of the Syrian National Coalition, also the three kidnapped civilians by Sultan-Murad militia are well-known owners of local shops in the city of Ras al-Ain.

It is worth mentioning that the displaced people of Ras Al-Ain staged a sit-in yesterday in front of the United Nations Office in Qamishli, to demand a U.N. resolution guaranteeing their return to their city, while the Turkish military and affiliated armed groups that control the city are preventing the return of local civilians to their city and homes.