Turkish-backed factions | Military security releases civilian, while Al-Sultan Murad Division kidnaps woman and her daughter in Afrin countryside

Aleppo province: SOHR activists have reported that members of Al-Sultan Murad Division, which controls Dirswan village in Sharan district have lured a woman and her daughter from Damascus city on the pretext of smuggling them into Turkey, but the faction kidnapped them, demanding that their relatives pay a ransom.

Meanwhile, Political Security service has released a man from Afrin for a ransom of 3,500 Turkish liras. The released man had been arrested on May 7 on charges of dealing with Kurdish forces and SDF.