The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Tension prevails the area of Nubl between gunmen from the town and members of the Kurdish forces which are located near it

Aleppo Province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: tension prevails the northern countryside of Aleppo between gunmen from Nubl town which is inhabited by citizens of Shiite community, and controlled by the regime forces and their allies, and between the Kurdish forces which are located near the area, and the information about the reasons of this state of tension between the both parties, is conflicting, as local sources said that gunmen from Nuble town attacked positions of the Kurdish forces after the latter had arrested two young men, beaten them and then they released them, at the outskirts of the area separating between them and between Afrin area, while other sources talked about the killing of a person at a checkpoint of the Kurdish forces where some people were passing by the area where the checkpoint is located, in which they were beaten until one of them died, amid an attempt by mediators to settle the tension and not to let the dispute between them to be expanded.

It is noteworthy that the SOHR published previously about the overcrowding of Nubl and Al-Zahraa towns as well as other villages and towns in the northern countryside of Aleppo, by people displaced from Afrin, many of whom found it difficult to rent a house because of doubling the rents of the houses, where hundreds of families have been housed inside the towns of Nubl and Al-Zahraa adjacent Afrin, which thousands of people who fled from Afrin headed to, as a result of the Operation “Olive Branch” which began on the 20th of January 2018, led by the Turkish forces with the participation of the Syrian rebel and Islamic opposition factions.