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Afrin: Turkish-backed SNA hunt Al Nusra, chop down olive trees that aren’t theirs
2023-03-09
Turkish-backed SNA on alert in Syria’s Afrin

[NPASyria] Neighborhoods in the city of Afrin in northern Aleppo witnessed on Tuesday a state of military alert by the military police faction, affiliated with The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
, following order to pursue members of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else
...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...
(HTS, formerly al-Nusra
...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ...
front).

Exclusive sources told North Press that the military alert status came after orders by the Levant Front (Jabhat al-Shamiya), a faction of the Ottoman Turkish-backed Syrian National Army (SNA), to the command of the military police, Ahmad Kabso, to search for members of the HTS in the city.

The military police deployed its forces in the neighborhoods of al-Vilat, al-Ashrafiyeh, and Mazout Street and inspected cars in the city.

On February 22, Ottoman Turkish forces installed a checkpoint on the Azaz-Afrin road, in northwest Syria, amid military mobilization between Ottoman Turkish-backed factions and a group affiliated with HTS.

Afrin and its countryside have been under the occupation of the Ottoman Turkish forces and the SNA factions since March 2018 following the so-called "Olive Branch" military operation that was launched allegedly to push away the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) under the pretext of protecting "Ottoman Turkish national security."

The operation caused the displacement of about 300.000 of the original inhabitants of the Kurds of Afrin who have been taking shelter in 42 villages and five camps in Aleppo northern countryside, locally known as Shahba Region, since then.

Turkish-backed SNA militants chop 94 trees in Syria’s Afrin

[NPASyria] Ottoman Turkish-backed armed Syrian opposition factions, also known as the Syrian National Army (SNA), cut down 94 trees in the countryside of Afrin north of Aleppo, northwest Syria, Afrin Post website said on Tuesday.

Militants of Sultan Muhammad al-Fateh cut down 40 olive trees, which belong to Hassan Rashid, a resident of the village of Baadina, on Baadina-Demlio route in Rajo district, according to the website.

On March4, armed Death Eaters cut down 50 olive trees and four nut ones, which are owned by the forcibly displaced Muhammad Osman from the village of Saarinjak in Sharran district, near Nebi Huri ancient site.

The Afrin Post also confirmed that Death Eaters of Hamza Division cut 40 olive trees in Jindires district west of Afrin after their owner refused to give them firewood for free ten days ago.

Afrin and its countryside have been under the occupation of the Ottoman Turkish forces and the SNA factions since March 2018 following the so-called "Olive Branch" military operation that was launched allegedly to push away the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) under the pretext of protecting "Ottoman Turkish national security."

The operation caused the displacement of about 300.000 of the original inhabitants of the Kurds of Afrin who have been taking shelter in 42 villages and five camps in Aleppo northern countryside, locally known as Shahba Region, since then.

After the occupation of Afrin, thousands of olive trees have been cut down by the SNA factions, according to press and human rights
...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions...
reports.
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