Turkey’s affiliated National Army militants murder a taxi driver in Tal-Abyad

North-Press Agency

Members of the Turkish-backed National Army have murdered a driver in the town of Tal-Abyad, northern Raqqa, after they tried to steal his car. A local source told  North-Press that Ammar al-Hajji, who worked as a taxi driver in Tal-Abyad (Gre Spi), took some militants of the Turkish-backed armed militia of Failaq al-Majd, under the umbrella name of “National Army”, to the village of Kendar. When they arrived, Turkish affiliated militants tried to steal al-Hajji's car and his money, but he resisted them, prompting them to kill him, according to the source.

Over the past month, there have been reports of armed fighting between the militants of the Turkish-backed armed groups in the city of Sere-Kaniye (Ras al-Ain), following disputes over the theft of areas controlled by other armed groups. As part of the policy of plundering and stealing the properties of local people of northern Syria, several private sources confirmed to North-Press last month that the Turkish military and its affiliated armed groups deliberately looted the grain near Ein Issa, north of Raqqa.

The sources indicated that the looting reached Sharakrak silos on M4 highway, east of Ein Issa. In the same month, Turkey's armed opposition groups seized properties belonging to the residents of al-Manajir town and the surrounding villages in Ras al-Ain countryside, amid the resentment and protest of the local people. Local sources told North-Press: "The residents of the town of al-Manajir and the surrounding villages of Ras al-Ain countryside were waiting for grinding their wheat in a mill near the town of al-Manajir, while a military vehicle of Turkey's armed groups passed by. The sources pointed out that the armed opposition groups took over the wheat of the people by force, as the people demonstrated against the groups’ seizure over their livelihood, which necessitated the intervention of a Turkish force after the armed groups opened fire in the air to disperse the protest of the people.