but Syrian National Army was officially established in 2017 by Turkiye
20.000+ soldiers from Syrian People
Your Sultan Murad Division:
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Alleged torture of POWs
After Turkish-backed rebels captured the town of
Jarabulus from ISIL in September 2016, Kurdish media reported
YPG allegations that Sultan Murad Division fighters were pictured next to four captured YPG fighters and that two Sultan Murad fighters from
Hama were captured in retaliation by the SDF-led
Jarabulus Military Council and questioned by Kurdish
Anti-Terror Units, confessing to torturing the YPG prisoners. The Sultan Murad prisoners reportedly said the YPG prisoners were handed by the Division to Turkey.
[44]
Shelling of civilian areas
On 25 October 2013, the Sultan Murad Division shelled a
monastery in Aleppo.
[45]
According to an
Amnesty International report from May 2016, indiscriminate shelling of
Sheikh Maqsoud during the
Battle of Aleppo (2012–2016) by the
Fatah Halab joint operations room, which included the Sultan Murad Division, killed between February and April 2016 at least 83 civilians, including 30 children, and injured more than 700 civilians.
[46] Amnesty International's regional director suggested that these repeated indiscriminate attacks constitute war crimes.
[46]
A February 2017 report by the
United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic came to the conclusion that, during the 2016 siege of Eastern Aleppo, Fatah Halab vowed to take revenge on the Kurds in
Sheikh Maqsoud and then intentionally attacked civilian inhabited neighbourhoods of the Kurdish enclave, killing and maiming dozens of civilians, and that these acts constitute the war crime of directing attacks against a civilian population.
[47][48][
verification needed].
Pillage
In September 2020, the United Nations
Office for the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and the
Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic reported on human rights abuses by Syrian National Army fighters in NW Syria. Among these were "Division 24 (the Sultan Murad Brigade), repeatedly perpetrated the war crime of pillage in both the
Afrin and
Ra’s al-Ayn regions [of Aleppo and Hasakah Governorates]... and may also be responsible for the war crime of destroying or seizing the property of an adversary."
[49][50] In one case, a civilian from Tel al-Arisha village displaced by fighting had to buy back his own looted possessions from a Sultan Murad officer.
[51][50] The commission received reports of forced marriage and abduction of Kurdish women involving members of the Division.
[51]
Child soldiers
In a 2021 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report by the
United States Department of State Turkey was implicated in using child soldiers by providing support to Sultan Murad Division which have been found to be recruiting minors in Syria, and also sending them to Libya to fight.
[52][53][54][55]
Kidnap and torture of civilians
Afrin Post reported that the group kidnapped a civilian, named Khalil Manla, after he filed a complaint against them and detained him to their headquarters. They beat and tortured him before released him on a ransom of 1,000
Turkish liras.
[56]
The SNA in general:
In September 2016, after their capture of Jarabulus from ISIL,
Sultan Murad Division fighters published pictures of themselves torturing four YPG
prisoners of war.
[172][173]
In June 2017, the
Kurdish National Council said the rebels kidnapped 55 Kurdish civilians and displaced hundreds of
Yazidis in northern Aleppo.
[174]
Several cases of Human rights violations have been reported by the
Syrian Observatory for Human rights (SOHR).
[175] According to Kurdish sources, Kurdish local politician
Hevrin Khalaf was executed near
Qamishli by the Syrian National Army, her death was later confirmed by the
SOHR.
[176] SOHR further reported that at least 9 civilians had been executed by the rebel troops.
[177]
On 3 October 2018, the Glory Corps attempted to seize 4 houses inhabited by displaced families from
Arbin in Afrin city to use as headquarters, but were stopped by the
Sultan Murad Division and the rebel military police.
[178]
On 27 January 2019, Glory Corps and Sham Legion fighters kidnapped a doctor from his clinic in Afrin and tortured him, and said he was a member of the
Democratic Union Party (PYD); the Sham Legion denied its fighters were involved.
[179]
After the SNA captured the border town of
Tell Abyad and its surroundings during the offensive in northern and eastern Syria in October 2019, Glory Corps fighters reportedly kidnapped several young men from Bîr Atwan village, west of Tell Abyad, and beat and humiliated them.
[180] On 22 October, fighters from the group trampled and mutilated the body of what appeared to be a
Women's Protection Units (YPJ) fighter they killed in the countryside near
Kobanî, laughing while they did so.
[181] The SNA captured four unarmed people and promptly
executed them on a
road.
[182]
The
2023 Trafficking in Persons Report mentioned that factions of the Syrian National Army recruited and used Syrian children as child soldiers in Libya.
[183]
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War crimes
According to the
Amnesty International, the Nour al-Din al-Zenki Movement, along with the
16th Division, the
Levant Front,
Ahrar al-Sham, and the
al-Nusra Front, were involved in abduction and torture of journalists and humanitarian workers in rebel-held Aleppo during 2014 and 2015.
[60]
2016 beheading incident
On 19 July 2016, during the
Aleppo offensive, a video emerged that appeared to show al-Zenki fighters recording themselves taunting and later beheading a
Palestinian boy named Abdullah Tayseer Al Issa.
[61] In the video, they claim he had been captured while fighting with the pro-government militia
Liwa al-Quds.
[62] Liwa al-Quds denied this, and claimed instead that Al Issa was a 12-year-old Palestinian refugee from a poor family
[61] who had been kidnapped.
[63]
The following day, a social media account purportedly owned by Al Issa's sister, Zoze Al Issa, claimed that Issa was a Syrian from the Wadi al-Dahab district of
Homs, who had volunteered to fight with pro-government forces.
[61] The New Arab published a photograph purporting to be the boy's identity card and putting his age at 19 years old. The report also quoted a cousin who claimed that Al Issa's had
thalassemia, which causes stunted growth.
[64]
In a statement, al-Zenki condemned the killing and claimed it was an "individual mistake that does not represent the general policy of the group", and that it had detained those involved.
[65][66]
According to Thomas Joscelyn, writing in
The Weekly Standard, U.S. President
Donald Trump was shown the beheading video in 2017, and it influenced Trump's decision to end
the CIA's support for anti-Assad Syrian rebels: "Trump wanted to know why the United States had backed Zenki if its members are extremists. The issue was discussed at length with senior intelligence officials, and no good answers were forthcoming."
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The
Suqour al-Sham Brigades (
Arabic: أَلْوِيَةُ صُقُورِ الشَّامِ,
romanized:
ʾAlwiyat Ṣuqūr aš-Šām, English: Hawks of the Levant Brigades), also known as the
Sham Falcons Brigades, is an armed rebel organisation formed by Ahmed Abu Issa
[1] early in the
Syrian Civil War to fight against the
Syrian Government.
[1] It was a member of the
Islamic Front[8] and a former unit of the
Free Syrian Army[17] and the
Syrian Islamic Liberation Front.
[18] They have a history of coordinating with Ahrar al-Sham and al-Qaeda's al-Nusra Front[6] (a group rebranded as Tahrir al-Sham since January 2017), though clashes with the latter broke out in January 2017. In March 2015, the Suqour al-Sham Brigades merged with
Ahrar ash-Sham,
[19][3] but left Ahrar al-Sham in September 2016.
[4] Also, in September 2016, they joined the
Army of Conquest, of which
Ahrar al-Sham is also a member.
[11] On 25 January 2017, Suqour al-Sham rejoined Ahrar al-Sham,
[9] but later became independent.
[5]
QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) – The report "Cemeteries with no Tombstones", issued from Monitoring and Documentation Department of North Press, reveals
npasyria.com
The SNA,Turkey's militias are a big collection of Arab,Syrian Turkmen and other salafist and harcore Sunni Muslim groups and gangs that often cooperated or were part of big terrorist organisations.
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