Widespread dissatisfaction with converting former ISIS members into security members in Ain Issa town northwest al-Raqqah

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that widespread public discontent prevails in Ain Issa town, which is under the control of the Syria Democratic Forces in the northwestern sector of al-Raqqah countryside, due to the practices, behaviors and violations practiced by several “traffic police” in the town, and reliable sources told the Syrian Observatory that the perpetrators of these violations are former members and Emirs of the “Islamic State” Organization, back when ISIS controlled the area, before their situations were “settled” after SDF’s control of the area, where they were turned to “traffic police”, and the same sources told the Syrian Observatory that the violations are represented by imposing bribes and royalties on cars and trucks and in particular which belong to the Kurds, not to mention the shameful acts against the pedestrians in the streets and the harassment of the citizen women, and imposing tickets as they please on the cars.

The Syrian Observatory published on the 17th of March 2019 that the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights obtained information from reliable sources, which confirmed that the graduation of a new military batch witnessed in Ayn Issa area in the north-western countryside of Al-Raqqah, where reliable sources confirmed that 160 members have graduated within a military batch after undergoing training for 3 months under the supervision of the US forces located in the area, and the Syrian Observatory filmed a video shows the members’ training during ovation for graduating the military batch, while the SOHR published on the 9th of November 2018, that it learned from intersected sources that a new batch is graduating of the Self-Defense Forces today, Friday, the 9th of November 2018, this batch is of the forces who were forcibly recruited and follow the Syria Democratic Forces, where the sources confirmed that the batch includes about 5000 volunteer and recruited fighters, in conjunction with preparations of the Syria Democratic Forces and the International Coalition Forces, to begin the last military operation against the “Islamic State” Organization, at its last enclave east of Euphrates; and in conjunction with the shelling that targets areas in the border strip between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers northeast of Euphrates area, which caused killed 5 fighters of the self-defense forces and the Syria Democratic Forces.