DEIR EZZOUR,(ST)_ US-backed “Syrian Democratic Forces” militia has kidnapped a number of civilians in Gharanij town in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzour, according to local sources..
The sources said that armed group affiliated to the SDF militia [ Its Arabic acronym is QASAD] stormed a number of houses in al-Ma’adan neighborhood in the town, and kidnapped several civilians and took them to an unknown destination.
This evening, armed SDF militiamen cordoned off neighborhoods in Al-Sh’hel city and kidnapped several young men under false pretexts and took them handcuffed to SDF militia’s headquarters in the region.
The militia has escalated its raid operations in the areas it occupies in the Syrian al-Jazeera region and it has kidnapped dozens of the civilians and hundreds of young men in the countryside of Deir Ezzour, Raqqa and Hasakah and took them to its camps to recruit them forcibly among its ranks.
Basma Qaddour