The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Gunmen from Nubl and al-Zahraa release tens of kidnapped Kurds days after they were detained in the northern countryside of Aleppo

Aleppo province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights:: the SOHR received information that militants allied to the regime from the towns of Nubl and al-Zahraa released tens of kidnapped Kurds who were detained in the towns of Nubl and al-Zahraa, which are inhabited by Shiite citizens in the northern countryside of Aleppo, They were detained on claims of the arrest of 2 persons from Nubl and al-Zahraa by Asayish in Afrin.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published a week ago that armed groups in the towns of Nubl and al-Zahraa –which are inhabited by Shiite citizens in the northern countryside of Aleppo– continue kidnaping and detaining tens of Kurd civilians, and in the details documented by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the Internal Kurdish Security Forces “Asayish” in Afrin have arrested two drug dealers from the towns of Nubl and al-Zahraa, in which groups of their relatives have detained tens of Kurdish civilians of who crossed the areas of Nubl and al-Zahraa during the past week, in an attempt to pressure the Asayish Forces to release both detainees they have in Afrin, and the Syrian Observatory received information that the number of detainees in Nubl and al-Zahraa has exceeded 80 persons.

Gunmen of Nubl and al-Zahraa tended in late July 2017 to kidnap tens of civilian citizens to put pressure on the rebel and Islamic factions operating in Aleppo, on the background of detaining militants loyal to the regime and other person from Nubl and al-Zahraa by the factions, who released the detainees later.