Senior Turkey-Backed Militant Commander Killed in Kurdish Militia Attack in Northern Syria

TEHRAN (Defapress)- The Kurdish-language Hawar news quoted the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) as reporting that a notorious field commander of Faylaq al-Sham, affiliated to the Turkish army was killed after a YPG sniper opened fire at him along a road to Jandaris region.

Hawar news further said that one of the bases of Ankara-backed Sultan Morad militants in Shera region came under the YPG fighters' attack that left two militants dead and another one injured.
The total number of casualties of the Turkish troops and their allied militants stand now at 2,541 in Afrin battle.    

Local sources in Northern Syria reported on Tuesday that Ankara-back militant groups captured almost a thousand civilians in Afrin region in Northwestern Aleppo to force their families to pay a hefty amount of money in return for their freedom.

The sources said that the Ankara-backed militants arrested almost 1,000 civilians in the town of Afrin and in the villages and districts near the town to earn a large amount of money as their ransom.

The sources went on to say that the Turkish troops and their allied militants were arresting civilians accusing them of connections to the Kurdish militias, adding that the captured civilians were tortured.

The sources added that more than half of the captured civilians were released after their families paid a hefty amount of money to the Ankara-backed militants as bribe.

The Ankara-backed militants forced Afrin residents to pay tax and set up checkpoints along al-Bastouleh road to receive toll from vehicles.

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