(Zaman Al Wasl)- Family of Owaish Buzzan has appealed to the powerful Kurdish PYD militia to release the16-year-old year daughter who fell a victim for forced recruitment by the US-led Syrian Democratic Forces.
Buzzan, like thousands of teenagers and children, was forcibly joined the ranks of the Women's Protection Units (YPJ) that include Kurds, Arabs, Assyrians, Circassians, and foreign volunteers.
Local rights advocates say the Kurdish militias have been recruiting children from every house under the campaign of the military conscription.
The Kurdish-led forces have been the main partner of the U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State in Syria, helping drive the jihadists out of swathes of northern and eastern Syria last year.
Assad's regime now controls nearly two-thirds of Syria and is determined to reassert its authority over Kurdish-held territory, which forms the lion's share of the rest.
But Kurdish leaders and their supporters are desperate to salvage what they can of their painstakingly built institutions, according to AFP.
Syria's war has left more than 360,000 people dead and displaced millions since it broke out with the brutal repression of an initially peaceful uprising in 2011.
Zaman Al Wasl
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