Opposition groups arrest two old brothers in Syria’s Afrin
QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) – On Monday, the Turkish-backed armed opposition groups arrested two old brothers in the village of Maabatli in Afrin countryside, northwest Syria.
“Members of the Turkish-backed National Army arrested the two elderly brothers, As’ad and Ali Youssef Mustafa from the village of Maabatli,” local sources said.
In recent days, the Violations Documentation Center in Northern Syria (VDC-SY) has documented a number of cases of kidnapping and arrest in Afrin.
On March 6, an elderly man called Sheikhmous Qasem, died under torture four days after he was kidnapped from his home in the Midan Akbas village, Rajo district, on charges of working as a guard before the Turkish forces and the Turkish-backed groups’ incursion of Afrin in 2018.
Turkey, along with its affiliated armed opposition groups, announced their full takeover of Afrin on March 18, 2018.
The Turkish military operation in Afrin displaced more than 300,000 of its original inhabitants, 100,000 of which settled in camps and destroyed villages in Aleppo’s northern countryside.
Areas held by Turkish-backed armed opposition groups are witnessing security chaos, accompanied by successive explosions and kidnappings in light of the opposition groups’ inability to stabilize security there.