The “Afrin-Syria Human Rights Organization” reported that a member of the “Faylaq al-Sham” faction, affiliated with what was formerly known as the “Syrian National Army”, called Ali Mohsen, who comes from Homs Governorate, attacked on Sunday evening, August 24, 2025, a Kurdish elderly man named Walid Sheikh Mohammed from the town of Maydanki in the Sharan sub-district in the countryside of Afrin. The attack, according to the report, was “due to the elderly man’s demand to restore his commercial shop that Ali Mohsen seized seven years ago during the occupation.”
He explained:ReportThat Ali Mohsen, who the organization described as a “settler,” refused to hand over the shop to its owner on the pretext that he had “installed iron windows for the shop,” and the elderly Walid Sheikh Mohammed demanded to pay for the cost of doors and windows. When the elderly person refused to pay the amount, he was “beaten and assaulted” by the aforementioned element, according to the report.
Lack of justice and the power of arms in the countryside of Afrin
The report of the organization pointed out that “the leaders and leaders of the factions of what was formerly known as the ’Syrian National Army’ act in villages and areas under their control in the countryside of Afrin, imposing their orders by force of arms in the absence of justice, law and accountability.” The organization confirmed that despite the opening of offices by the Public Security Department in Afrin to allow the recently returned Kurdish citizens to regain their property, “the power of arms and the arrogance of settlers and gunmen impose their orders, flouting the decisions issued by the Public Security Department and the local councils.”
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