Hundreds of Afrin Citizens Arrested by Ankara-Backed Militants in Aleppo in 1 Day

A large number of civilians have been arrested by Turkey-backed militants in the occupied region of Afrin North-West of Aleppo, the Kurdish-language media outlets reported.

News ID: 445767

Date: 01 July 2019 - 22:36

RNA - "The Ankara-backed militants raided civilians' houses in the center of Mobata region in Afrin," the Kurdish-language Hawar News website quoted local sources in Afrin as saying.

The sources reiterated that at least 300 civilians, most of them women, children and elderlies were arrested in the raids by Turkey-backed terrorists.

Meantime, the Syrian army continued its military advances in other parts of Syria over past 24 hours.

Tens of terrorists were killed and dozens more were injured during the Syrian army's operations in provinces across Syria.

Aleppo

The Kurdish-language Hawar News website quoted local sources in Afrin as saying that the Ankara-backed militants raided civilians' houses in the center of Mobata region in Afrin.

They pointed to beating up and torture of civilians while they were in custody, and said that there is still no report on their whereabouts.

Raqqa

The dead bodies of several more victims killed in the US-led coalition airstrikes and the ISIL attacks have been discovered from under the rubble and mass-graves in Raqqa in recent days.

According to Fars News Agancy, Media activists in Raqqa reported that the civil teams in the city found the corpses of 23 people from a mass-grave in al-Talaeh Garrison South of Raqqa and three others who were killed in the US airstrikes from the ruins of a building in al-Haramieh region in Raqqa City and also a mass-grave in the village of al-Sahlabieh in Western part of Raqqa city.

Most of the bodies found in Raqqa belong to civilians who had been killed in this region in the US airstrikes over the past two years and also the civilians executed by the ISIL terrorist group on different charges.

Hama-Idlib

The Syrian Army, backed by the country's air force, thwarted a fresh offensive by the elite elements of Tahrir al-Sham al-Hay'at (the Levant Liberation Board or the Al-Nusra Front) on government forces' military positions in Northern Hama and Southern Idlib, killing tens of terrorists.

The Arabic-language website of the Russian Sputnik news agency quoted a battlefield source as saying that the Syrian Army units engaged in fierce clashes with a group of foreign elite militants of Tahrir al-Sham terrorists known as 'Asaeb al-Hamra' who intended to penetrate into al-Hamamiat region.

The source noted that after inflicting tens of casualties on the terrorists, the Syrian Army warded off the terrorists' attack and forced their remnants to retreat.

He said that the Syrian Air Force heavily pounded the terrorists' military positions in Kafar Zita, al-Latamineh, al-Zuka, al-Arbaeen and the surrounding areas of Wadi Osman in Northern Hama, destroying several centers of Jeish al-Izza, their rocket-launching sites as well as Turkey-made armored vehicles of the terrorists, killing all the terrorists inside them.

Meanwhile, the Syrian Army's artillery units pounded the terrorists' movements in an area from al-Naqir to North of al-Hobait till towns of Sheikh Mustafa, al-Rakaya, Tarmala and Kafar Sanjeh, destroying several of their military positions.

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