In search for ISIS cells | Military Police arrests family of Shiran population in Afrin countryside

Aleppo province: A patrol of Turkey-backed Military Police that is composed of five cars have carried out an assault near Shiran in Afrin countryside on Monday, on pretext of arresting a member of ISIS called Abou Bader al-Faghouri, but the man managed to flee before arrival of the police.

Accordingly, the Military Police has carried out another operation for searching the civilians houses near Shiran on pretext of searching for the escaping member. During the assault, and the search, two sisters rejected opening the door for the patrol elements who brought the father from his field and searched the house carefully and arrested all the five-member family including the two sisters claiming they had obstructed the patrol work.

The patrol members have taken the family to Afrin city and seized all the mobile equipment in their possession.

Yesterday, SOHR activists reported that al-Hamzah Division that controls al-Bastoutah village in Shiro neighborhood had pressed the people in Afrin via imposing new levies on the population and on the cars passing the village.

Al-Hamzah Division monthly levies are valued at 100 USD that was known as protection tax. The faction also imposed levies on the farmers by forcing them to pay 2 dollars on every olive tree annually and imposed levies on the passing cars via al-Bastoutah village. Each driver who would like to cross al-Hamzah Division checkpoint shall pay 50 to 100 Turkish lira to allow them passing through the village.
It is worth noting that al-Basoutah village is the vital artillery where hundreds of cars cross daily from and to Euphrates Shield and Olive Branch areas towards the HTS-held areas.
In Bulbul neighborhood al-Majad Crops imposed levies that valued with 300 oil tanks on the population of the Kila village population in Bulbul neighborhood under pretext of boosting the Syrian Revolution where the economic official of al-Majd Crops has asked on last Thursday the people to pay the levies, 300 oil tanks, to the economic bureau, based on the income of each farmer.