Published : 10-10-2021
Syrian security forces arrested a number of Palestinian and Syrian refugees on their way to areas controlled by the Kurdish-led and US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the northern countryside of Aleppo, where human smuggling networks toward zones led by the Free Army are operative.
Informed sources told AGPS that the Palestinian and Syrian refugees reached out to a smuggler in Damascus in order to enter the Turkish territories in return for $1,200 per very single person. They reached Aleppo’s northern outskirts onboard a private van, after they passed through dozens of security checkpoints.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, the sources said the smuggler turned them in to a regime checkpoint near Manbij city, located at a distance of 90 kilometers from Aleppo and 35 kilometers from the Syrian-Turkish borders. They were transferred to the military security branch in Aleppo and later to a security branch in Damascus.
The list of arrestees includes evaders of military conscription with pro-regime militias along with women and children whose condition and whereabouts remain unidentified.
Syrian security forces arrested a number of Palestinian and Syrian refugees on their way to areas controlled by the Kurdish-led and US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the northern countryside of Aleppo, where human smuggling networks toward zones led by the Free Army are operative.
Informed sources told AGPS that the Palestinian and Syrian refugees reached out to a smuggler in Damascus in order to enter the Turkish territories in return for $1,200 per very single person. They reached Aleppo’s northern outskirts onboard a private van, after they passed through dozens of security checkpoints.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, the sources said the smuggler turned them in to a regime checkpoint near Manbij city, located at a distance of 90 kilometers from Aleppo and 35 kilometers from the Syrian-Turkish borders. They were transferred to the military security branch in Aleppo and later to a security branch in Damascus.
The list of arrestees includes evaders of military conscription with pro-regime militias along with women and children whose condition and whereabouts remain unidentified.
