Ankara-Backed Militants Killed in Infighting among Rival Groups in Northern Syria

TEHRAN (Defapress)- The Kurdish-language Hawar news reported that Soqour al-Jabal and Sultan Murad terrorist groups, affiliated to the Turkish army, exchanged heavy fire in al-Qandoureh region in Jarabulus, leaving casualties on both warring sides.

Also, Hawar news said that the infighting in Afrin region is due to rival militants' differences over distribution of assets they have looted from civilians' houses and shops.

In the meantime, the Russia-run Humeimim airbase cautioned of stealing and looting civilians' assets in Afrin region, and underlined that control of Afrin region should be handed over to the Syrian government.

Hawar news quoted well-informed sources in Shih region in Afrin as reporting on Saturday that the army took into captivity a sum of 3,000 civilians in several villages in Shih and transferred them to the village of Mirkan in Mobata region.

Hawar news further said that some of the jailed civilians were transferred to the village of Qarmitlaq and some others were sent to Turkey to be kept in detention centers there.

It further said that the captured civilians were tortured severely by the army and its allied militants, adding that the Turkish soldiers were shooting around blindfolded captives to scare them.

In the meantime, a local source on Bolboleh region said that the Ankara-backed militants forced villagers in Khalika to leave their houses to replace them with almost 2,000 militants and their family members that had left Douma region in Damascus province under an evacuation agreement with the Syrian Army.

The source further said that the Ankara-backed militants were forcing men and women in the villages of Shirwa and Bolboleh region to carry out hard jobs, including digging trenches and cooking food and serving the militants.

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