Popular Uprising against US-Backed Militants Reported again in Northeastern Syria

A large number of people in Eastern and Northern Raqqa demonstrated against the forced recruitment of young men by the predominately Kurdish US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in Northern and Western Raqqa on Tuesday.

News ID: 70301

Date: 22 May 2018 - 14:25

TEHRAN (Defapress)- The SDF embarked on arresting fifty young men in the villages of al-Karama, Hara Balasem and Hamra Boweita in Eastern Raqqa and in the town of Ein Issa in Northern Raqqa under a recruitment plan.

The SDF move angered villagers in al-Karama that took to the village's main street and demonstrated against the Kurdish militias.

The Kurdish militias have been forcing locals to join the SDF via vast arrest plans in their territories.

In a relevant development on Monday, the US-backed militias continued blackmailing people in Western Raqqa as differences between the locals and Washington-backed gunmen widened.

The SDF arrested a number of civilians in Raqqa province to further ask a hefty amount of money for their release.

In the meantime, local sources in the town of Tabaqa in Western Raqqa reported that the Kurdish militias captured a number of young people at the town's entrance and forced them to pay $550 for their release or fight in battlefields.

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