Military Situation In Syria On July 23, 2019 (Map Update)

TEHRAN (FNA)- The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) has begun executing people who resist against its forced recruitment plan in Eastern Syria, the Arabic-language media outlets reported on Tuesday. The SDF tortured and executed two young Arab men after they rejected pressures by the militia group to join their ranks in the Eastern parts of Syria, the Arabic-language al-Furat News website reported. Meantime, media activists also said that the SDF arrests young Syrians house raids to force them to join its ranks. The activists also said that the arrests by the Kurdish militias have increased as Turkey has bolstered the threat of its long-waited offensive on Kurdish regions in Northeastern Syria. The said that about 100 civilians have been arrested by the SDF in Raqqa and Hasaka. In a relevant development on Saturday, the Arabic-language media outlets reported that the SDF have been cooperating with Israeli physicians in setting up hospitals for body organ trade in Eastern Syria. The SDF has set up clandestine field hospitals for stealing and trading body organs of people in the cities of Hasaka and Qamsehli in Northeastern Hasaka province, the Arabic-language al-A’alam TV channel quoted informed sources in Hasaka as saying today. The sources said that the SDF has engaged in body organ trade by either abducting children or by taking out the organs of their slain militants who had been forced into the rank of the terrorist group. In a relevant development in October 2018, terrorists in Northwestern Syria had intensified trafficking of the body organs of Idlib citizens to Turkey to earn more money in the country’s black market. Syria’s Arabic-language al-Mahaver news website reported that body organ trading by terrorists has intensified in Idlib city and other militant-held regions in the Northwestern province. It further said that the terrorists kidnap several civilians in the militant-held regions in Idlib each day to excise their organs in dreadful operations and send them to Turkey by certain groups that are running operations in both countries. The civilians go under illegal surgery and their body organs are taken out and sold at high prices, the news website said, adding that people in the Northeastern city of Idlib have “called on the Syrian Army to enter their region and save them from the terrorist groups’ brutalities”. Director-General of the Syria Coroner’s Office Hossein Noufel disclosed in November 2016 that the body organs of thousands of Syrian civilians were sold in the international black markets over the past six years. “We have accurate information that over 25,000 surgical operations have been conducted in the refugee camps of the neighboring countries and in the terrorist-controlled areas in Syria since 2011 to take out the body organs of 15,000 Syrians and sell them in the international black markets,” Dr. Noufel said. He pointed to the high prices of human body organs in the black markets, and said, “A kidney is sold $10,000 in Turkey while the same kidney is sold for $1,000 in Iraq, but in Lebanon and Syria the price of each kidney is $3,000.” Dr. Noufel said that other human body organs such as spleen and cornea are also sold in the black markets. According to latest reports, the children who have been rescued from the camps of Abdullah Muhammad al-Muhaysini, a senior al Qaeda-linked cleric and the religious leader of Jeish al-Fatah terrorist group, are now threatened with the danger of trafficking their body organs by the terrorists.

EHRAN (FNA)- The Turkish Army and its allied militants have kidnapped and detained hundreds of civilians in Afrin in Northwestern Aleppo since occupying the region, media reports said on Tuesday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported that there are currently 2,090 residents of Afrin who had been abducted from Northwestern Aleppo are still in custody of the Turkish Army and its allied militants known as ‘Olive Fury’. The SOHR noted that over 3,000 civilians have been kidnapped by the Ankara-backed militants since occupation of Afrin region last March, and said that civilians usually pay more than 10 million Syrian lira to the Turkish Army and Ankara-backed militants to secure their release. In a relevant development in late June, the Kurdish-language media outlets reported that a large number of civilians had been arrested by Turkey-backed militants in Afrin Northwest of Aleppo. The Kurdish-language Hawar News website quoted local sources in Afrin as saying that the Ankara-backed militants raided civilians’ houses in the center of Mobata region in Afrin. The sources reiterated that at least 300 civilians, most of them women, children and elderlies were arrested in the raids by Turkey-backed terrorists. They pointed to beating up and torture of civilians while they were in custody, and said that there is still no report on their whereabouts.