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PYD militants step up conscription campaign in Hasaka


(Zaman Al Wasl)- PYD’s militants launched new conscription campaign in northeastern Hasaka province, conducting patrols on civil houses and arresting dozens of young men, activists said Sunday.

Activit Malaz al-Yusuf reported that militias of “Military Discipline Units” of Democratic Union Party, had raided the market of sheep southern of Tal-Hamis town in Qamishli countryside and arrested many young men to recruit them mandatorily in fighting the Islamic State.

Al-Yusuf told Zaman al-Wasl that conscription campaign included dozens of young men in Shadadi area as well, while the regime’s forces had started arresting young men in the southern countryside who visit official institutions to join the mandatory back-up military service and the fifth corps that had been announced about.

In regard to military development, the activist mentioned that ISIS had launched an attack on sites of militias of Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in villages of Azawi and Anad, besides the military airport that being used for American helicopters.


The Syria's PKK wing, the Democratic Union Party, held a meeting with residents of the town of Agibish near Tal-Tamer, preparing to allow them to return to their houses.

Sources said that the meeting took place in the neighbourhood of Mosherfa northern of Hasaka to decide the number of people allowed to return to the village and regulating conditions, as 1000 families are expected to allowed back to their houses.

PYD militants had previously allowed about 2000 Arabic families to return to their villages in al-Hol and Tal Barak in Eastern countryside, and the area of Jabal Abdul-Aziz, Mabroka in Western countryside in April 2016after months of displacement.

PYD had 2014 announced formation of self-Administration which has its own military, security bodies besides courts and other institutions similar to official countries in three region: Efrin, Ain al-Arab and Jazeera, then areas of Raqqa and Allepo and Idlib were added

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