Afrinpost – Special
The militia “Sultan Suleiman Shah” of the Turkish occupation and the Muslim Brotherhood sent a new batch of its militants through the Hammam border crossing named after the Battle of the Olive Branch, to join a training course inside Turkish territory and then be sent to Libya to participate in the fighting alongside the government of the Fawakeq, against the Libyan National Army led by Field Marshal Khalifa Hifter.
The Afrinpost correspondent in the “Shieh / Sheikh Al-Hadid” district said that two hundred armed militia by 30 buses drove off on Tuesday / 26th of May, from the district’s center, after they had undergone a 15-day training course in the militia’s “Qarmatlaq” camp.
The correspondent added that the militia had collected 300 militants, but about 100 armed men among them refused to go to Libya, which led the militia to expel them and their families from the district lands.
The reporter pointed out that the militia is currently suffering from a severe shortage in armed men numbers, which recently forced it to force settlers to patrol in the villages it occupies in the district.
In a related context, “Afrinpost” learned from its sources that the militia “Sultan Muhammad al-Fateh” is also forcing settlers in the villages of Kirka, Araba and Ma’mla to patrol at night because of the shortage in the numbers of their militants due to the fact that many of them went to the fighting in Libya.
Noting that the same militia forces Kurdish citizens in the villages of “Brimja” and “Turmisha”, which are under the control of the “Abu Tarap” group of the 23rd group of the “Sultan Mehmed Al-Fateh” militia, to conduct night patrol without providing them with weapons (as they fear from Kurdish citizens targeting them with the weapons).
