3 children kidnapped in 24 hours in Syria’s Afrin
AFRIN, Syria (North Press) – Three children under the age of seven were kidnapped in just 24 hours in the town of Jindires in the countryside of Afrin, northwestern Syria. The incidents caused major concern among the town’s residents.
A source in the Military Police, affiliated with Turkey, told North Press that three kidnapping incidents occurred in Jindires within 24 hours. The children were abducted from neighborhoods in which they reside despite many Military Police checkpoints and surveillance cameras.
The source said that the abducted children were two boys (Asheq al-Amouri, 7, Asaad al-Awaid, 3,) and a girl, (Alaa Jamous, 3).
The source pointed out that the families of the kidnapped children reported to the Turkish-backed armed opposition factions, aka the Syrian National Army (SNA). However, no action has been taken so far to ascertain the whereabouts of the children.
The families of the abducted children have expressed deep concerns about the fate of their children, particularly due to the presence of child trafficking gangs, especially amid the unstable security situation in those areas.
The city of Afrin, along with several other cities under the control of Turkish-backed SNA, continue to witness a state of chaos.
Turkey occupied Afrin and its countryside in 2018 following a military operation called “Olive Branch,” which forced about 300,000 of the original Kurdish inhabitants to be displaced to areas in Aleppo and others in NE Syria.