The Afrin region witnessed continued violations by armed factions affiliated with the Syrian National Army against indigenous residents and those returning to their villages and cities from displacement places, as they demanded from some returnees to pay financial ransoms ranging from 200 to 5000 US dollars per person, according to the charge against him/her, under the pretext of regulating their …
Read More »Motivated by poverty: Afrin’s displaced people return to Afrin and are forced to pay sums to the factions
As a result of the worsening cases of extreme poverty in displacement places, indigenous families were recently forced to return to their villages and homes in Afrin region, most of whom are from Aleppo, Lebanon, and Shahba areas. According to what some of people returning to the region told Lelun, the reason is due to the poor economic conditions, the …
Read More »Afrin: Victims’ families waive their right to claim against the armed groups’ violations
Since the “Olive Branch” operation started in 2018, Afrin region has been subjected to a series of systematic violations, for several reasons, including those that occur deliberately and target the indigenous population, and others as a result of the security chaos. Many people refrain from claiming their rights or filing complaints after they have been subjected to any violations, for …
Read More »Take care of yourself and my little one.. I’ll be back..!
“Five years have passed, and I am still waiting for him, counting the hours and minutes of every day passes until the time for the meeting comes, then I return empty-handed without any news about him. I do not know if he is alive or dead, but something tells me not to lose hope.” This is how “Sarah/a pseudonym” describes …
Read More »85 Syrian Organizations Welcome the U.S. Treasury’s Sanctions against Two Syria-Based Armed Groups and Commanders
The undersigned Syrian organizations welcome the decision of the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of 17 August 2023 to designate the two Syrian armed groups, the Suleiman Shah Brigade (known as al-Amshat) and the Hamza Division (known as al-Hamzat). The two groups are connected with serious human rights violations against the Kurdish community in the Afrin …
Read More »I don’t know how to arrange the words and where to start to describe the amount of pain dominating my heart!
I am now in my mid-forties, a mother of four children, three boys and a girl. I now live in Aleppo city, after we were displaced from my village, as a result of our trip to the “Shahba” area before that, and because of my husband’s health condition, which forced us to move. Man doesn’t know what he has to …
Read More »Al-Amshat faction imposes fines and taxes on the returnees to Afrin
The district of Sheikh Al-Hadid / Shiya and villages under the control of Sultan Suleiman Shah’s faction are witnessing popular discontent, due to the imposing of financial fines and taxes on the people with various pretexts, one of which amounted to about forty thousand dollars on the entire population of the village. In the details, private local sources confirmed to …
Read More »Afrin: A new attack on a member of the “Peshmerg” family by gunmen
Violations against the “Peshmerg” family did not stop at the “Newroz 2023” crime in Jenderees, in which four young Kurds from one family were killed by “Sharqiya Army” faction. Rather, these violations continued to include repeated threats and attempts to target family’s members. The latest of which was the attack on grandson of the family by an armed group believed …
Read More »Afrin: A Kurdish woman was killed by several stab wounds and her house was burned, motivated by theft
As a result of the state of security chaos that has been going on for more than five years, Afrin city recently witnessed a horrific murder, as unknown persons killed Mrs. “Aufa Sheikh Ahmed” in her house, located in the roundabout Marateh , with several stab wounds to her body, before they stole an amount of money and her gold …
Read More »Since that day, a state of complete fear and panic has gripped us
When I recall my past memories in Afrin, I feel a great pain filling my heart, so that, I am not able to reveal the details of my previous life. Our life was really beautiful! I was with my children and my husband, we lived a stable life, and our financial conditions were very good. My husband was a merchant …
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