SNA shoots 4 people trying to cross to AANES-held areas in Raqqa
RAQQA, Syria (North Press) – Turkish-backed armed opposition factions, aka the Syrian National Army (SNA), wounded four individuals while trying to cross to areas held by the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) in Raqqa Governorate, northern Syria.
An exclusive source told North Press that a group affiliated with an SNA faction, stationed in the SNA-held village of Tufaha in the north of Raqqa, shot a group of people attempting to cross to AANES-held areas in the south of the M4 Highway, north of Raqqa.
The source added that the attack led to the injury of four Syrian refugees forcibly deported from Turkey. They were taken by the attacking group to a hospital in Tel Abyad.
The SNA-affiliated group handed over the wounded to the Civil Police factions for investigation in a first of its kind incident.
The city of Tel Abyad and its countryside, on the Turkish border, have been under the control of Turkey and SNA factions since 2019 following a military operation dubbed “Peace Spring” that pushed away the Syrian democratic Forces (SDF) under the pretext of protecting the Turkish national security.
The source noted that the young men who tried to cross to AANES-held areas were deported from Turkey 20 days ago through Tel Abyad border crossing. They were subjected to investigations and extortion, which urged them to flee the violations of the SNA and it security apparatus.