The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Security chaos in SDF-held areas | Unknown gunmen try to assassinate SDF intelligence commander in eastern Aleppo province

SOHR sources say that unidentified gunmen opened fire on a military vehicle carrying a SDF intelligence commander near the junction of the area of “Haya”, east of Manbij, causing material damage.

The SDF’s counter-terrorism forces had arrested a group of people, a few days ago, one of them an official in SDF intelligence and the other of Iranian nationality who had joined the ranks of SDF during the battles of Ain al-Arab (Kobane) against the Islamic State, and the third person is a civilian from Al-Raqqa province.

According to Observatory sources, the three people have been involved in armed robberies and car smuggling from SDF-held areas to the areas of the “Euphrates Shield”.

The three persons were charged with a murder took place a year ago, against two SDF members on the Manbij-Raqqah road. The two members were thrown into a well and the car they were travelling in was burned, after stealing a large sum of money estimated at $2 million.