US-backed militia kidnaps 55 civilians including 2 women in Syria’s Raqqa

RAQQA, HASAKA, (ST)_Over the past few  hours, the US-backed “Syrian Democratic Forces” militia has kidnapped scores of civilians in Raqqa and Hasaka. 

 

According to local sources, the militia’s members set up checkpoints and raided the houses of residents in the eastern side of Raqqa city and Ayn Issa city and near Tal Al-Samen town in the northern countryside of Raqq. 

 

“The militia kidnapped 55 civilians including 2 women and took them to an unknown place;” the sources said. 

 

More civilians were kidnapped by the SDF militia’s members from Tal Brak town and Al-Howl camp in Hasaka countryside in order to forcibly drive them to training camps to fight alongside the militia. 

 

Basma Qaddour