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IDPs, SNA faction clash in Syria’s Afrin, SNA shoots 2 in Raqqa
2023-08-20
[NPASyria] On Friday night, armed festivities erupted in the town of Jindires in the west of Afrin, northwest Syria, between displaced people and a Ottoman Turkish-backed armed faction as members of the latter assaulted on the displaced.

Militants of Sultan Suleiman Shah (al-Amshat) faction assaulted on young men from the town of Ainjara, west of the city of Aleppo. As a result, the IDPs of Aijara, who are living in Jindires, gathered and clashed with the faction’s krazed killers, eyewitnesses told North Press.

Afrin has been under the occupation of The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
and the SNA factions since 2018 following a military operation dubbed "Olive Branch" against the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) under the pretext of preserving Turkey’s national security.

They said that intermittent festivities broke out between the two parties, where they used machine guns, without any reports on casualties.

The Ainjara IDPs demanded al-Amshat to hand over those who assaulted their relatives, and the latter agreed for fear of more escalation, according to the eyewitnesses.

On August 17, the US Department of the Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated Sultan Suleiman Shah Division (al-Amshat), Hamza Division, al-Amshat leader Muhammad Hussein al-Jassem (Abu Amsha), his younger brother Walid Hussein al-Jassem, Hamza leader Saif Abu Bakr, and the Istanbul-headquartered al-Safir Oto, a car dealership owned by Abu Amsha, for committing "serious human rights
When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much...
abuses" against the people of Afrin, mainly the Kurds.

On March 20, snuffies of Ahrar al-Sharqiya, a faction affiliated with the Ottoman Turkish-backed Syrian National Army (SNA), killed five Kurds and maimed others in Jindires for celebrating Newroz, a Kurdish national celebration.

The incident was followed by local and international angry reactions, calling for holding perpetrators accountable for the incident and removing the injustice in areas under the SNA factions’ control and demilitarize the region (northwestern Syria).

Following the incident, thousands of the people of Jindires and nearby villages took to streets, demanding perpetrators be held accountable and the expulsion of SNA factions from the region.

Turkish-backed SNA faction shoots 2 people in Syria’s Raqqa

[NPASyria] Militants of the Ottoman Turkish-backed armed opposition factions, known as the Syria National Army (SNA), shot on Saturday at two young men in Raqqa Governorate, northern Syria.

The two young men were trying to leave the city of Tel Abyad and go to the areas held by the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES). They were maimed and taken to Suluk Hospital, west of Tel Abyad, an exclusive source told North Press.

The city of Tel Abyad in the north of Raqqa has been under the occupation of the Ottoman Turkish forces and has been controlled by the SNA factions since 2019 following the so-called "Peace Spring" military operation that aimed to push away the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) under the pretext of protecting the Ottoman Turkish national security.

After that, the SNA handed over the two young men to the Civil Police faction for investigation. This is the second incident during August, the source said.

The two young men were forcibly deported from The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
to Tel Abyad two weeks ago. They decided to flee the area as they were blackmailed by the SNA factions.
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