afrinpost – Exclusive
Today, Saturday morning, the center of Afrin region witnessed a great security alert by the Turkish-backed militias, as armed elements spread inside the city and its entrances were closed with checkpoints, after the announcement of an extensive security campaign by the so-called “Ministry of Defense of the Interim Government” to root out “terrorist cell” and fighting the corrupts, according to what was stated in the statement.
The security alert by the occupation militias also extended to the entrances and outside the occupied cities of Al-Bab and Azaz, amid intense movements of patrols inside those areas.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights stated that the leader of the “al-Jabha al-Shamiya” militia issued a circular to his gunmen to prevent any force affiliated with the “National Army” militia from approaching the areas under his control in Afrin, Azaz and Al-Bab.
According to the information received, the “Military Police” militia, in the campaign it intends to carry out, has coordinated with the militias of the “Hamzat, Sultan Murad, Ahrar al-Sharqiya and Jaish al-Islam” to target a number of leaders of “Lal-Jabha al-Shamiya” militia or permanently expel it from the occupied areas west of the Euphrates, which prompted the latter to set checkpoints at the entrances to the aforementioned cities to prevent the movement of the militias, especially in the cities of Azaz and Afrin.
It is noteworthy that two gunmen from “Jaish al-Islam” faction were killed, on Saturday February 13, 2021, by “al-Jabha al-Shamiya” near Qabban roundabout in Afrin, as a result of clashes between the two groups’ members against the background of a civilian from Ghouta seeking protection in a headquarter of “Jaish al-Islam” escaping from “al-Jabha al-Shamiya” militants.
