YPG cells continue their operations against “Olive Branch” factions in Afrin area northwest of Aleppo
Aleppo Province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored YPG cells continuing their operations against “Olive Branch” factions in Afrin area northwest of Aleppo’s countryside, where the Syrian Observatory monitored clashes during the last 24 hours between YPG cell against fighters of Ahrar al-Sharqiyyah, near Kafranbu village in Sharan Township area in a surprise attack by YPG cells, and caused casualties between both parties, where at least 1 member of Ahrar al-Sharqiyyah was killed and others were injured, and the Syrian Observatory published on the 9th of September 2018 that 2 bodies were found at the road between al-Bab city and al-Rai village in the northeastern countryside of Aleppo, it turned out that they are fighters of “Sultan Mohmmad al-Fatih” faction, where they were shot dead by gunmen believed to belong to YPG cells, raised to 115, the number of assassinations that targeted the forces controlling Afrin area, which continue to prevent civilians from returning from the northern countryside of Aleppo, towards their towns, villages, and residences from which they have been displaced, while the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented the rise of number of casualties as a result of the continuation of these groups of the YPG to carry out targeting operation against the Turkish forces and the factions in Afrin area, where it rose to at least 1575, the number of fighters of the YPG and the Self-Defense forces who have been killed since the start of the Operation “Olive Branch”, while it rose to 621, the number of members of the Turkish forces and the rebel and Islamic factions including 83 soldiers of the Turkish forces, who were killed in the clashes against the Kurdish Units in Afrin area and in the targeting they have been subjected to, while leading sources of the YPG denied that their forces or cells had relation or responsibility for many of the assassinations and acts of torture; some of which appeared on videos and attributed to the Kurdish Forces, and the sources accused other cells belong to other parties of carrying out these assassinations and attributing them to the Kurdish Forces for their own agenda, the main aim of which is to escalating their violations against the civilians, where the resentment has been increasing among the civilians day after day, with the unfair and unjust procedures, and the silence of the Turkish Forces -who are leading the “Olive Branch” operation- and not responding to their complaints.