«Encourage» kidnap 36 women and children during the bloody attack on Swaida

The abduction of 36 civilians between women and children from the governorate of Suweida in south Syria during the bloody attack that took place six days ago and killed more than 250 people in a bloody attack, the largest in a region with a majority Druze, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Syrian Kurdish leaders have not ruled out the possibility of leading limited understandings between them and the Syrian government, at this stage, to joint military cooperation to liberate the northern regions of Syria.

In a separate statement, the director of the Syrian Observatory, Rami Abdulrahman, said that the organization kidnapped 36 women and children during the attack on Wednesday in the province of Suweida. Four women escaped later. Two other bodies were found, one of them shot in the head and the other elderly. , Is likely to be «died of fatigue during the course».

Thus, 30 people are still being held by the extremist organization, according to the observatory, which confirmed that the fate of 17 other men is still unknown.

On Wednesday, Daqash carried out a large-scale suicide bombing in the province of Suweida, killing more than 250 people, including at least 139 civilians. More than 60 of them were killed in the village of al-Shatri after the organization raided houses Citizens, shoot them, or slay them with knives.

According to the local Swaida 24 news network, all the abductees were from the village of al-Shatri in the eastern village of Suweida, "20 women between the ages of 18 and 60, in addition to 16" children.

Most of the abductees come from two main families in the village bordering the Syrian desert, where extremists are holed up.

Wednesday's attacks, along with the city of Suwayda, built seven major villages in its eastern countryside, controlling three of them for hours.

In these villages, where the largest number of casualties, according to the Observatory and local activists, clashes broke out between the fighters of the organization and local militants, mostly civilians who took up arms alongside the forces of the regime to defend their areas.

The extremist battles forced them to retreat to their points of presence in the desert of Suweida, on the outskirts of the northeastern governorate, after they had taken with them the number of civilians from the village of al-Shatri.

Activists on social networking sites and local news networks in Swaida talked about a video they said the extremist organization published, showing a woman wearing a white scarf and scarf, declaring that she had a "da'ash" organization, while in a dark background a number of women and a child appeared at least. She quoted the demands of the organization in exchange for their release under the threat of killing them.

The organization did not publish its known accounts on the application of the video, which can not be verified, but civilians and local activists identified the woman, who said she was from the village of al-Shatree, and was missing. "The organization communicates with the families of the abductees over the phone, and sends pictures and videos to them," said Noor Radwan, director of the Suwaida 24 network, who is from Suwayda. He said that after the first contact was received, sheikhs and clerics began negotiating with them.

The organization demands, according to Radwan, to release the kidnapped soldiers, the regime's forces, "to release detainees to the organization, the number of which is negotiated, in addition to the cessation of the regime's campaign against the Yarmouk Basin", the last pocket under the control of the organization in the western province of Daraa neighboring, With Russian support for nearly two weeks.

"The kidnappers were still until last Sunday in the Badia, and they are being negotiated with the sheikhs of the mind," a local source said, referring to the kidnappers in the Swaida, who declined to be named. The organization, according to Radwan, managed to "kidnap a first batch of civilians from their homes, having not encountered resistance similar to the neighboring villages, the fact that the majority of its people are peasants and have no more than a hunting weapon. And then took them east towards the Badia according to the testimonies of the survivors of them ».

The organization also detained about 40 other civilians within the religious council of the village, but was unable to transport them to the Badia because of the arrival of local fighters, who fought violent clashes against the organization before the elimination of a number of them and defeated others.

On the other hand, Syrian Kurdish leaders have not ruled out the possibility that the limited understandings between them and the Syrian government at this stage will lead to joint military cooperation to liberate the northern regions of Syria, including areas controlled by Turkey, directly or indirectly. Although he stressed that the main objective of entering into understandings with the Syrian government was not directed against Turkey in particular, the former head of the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party, Saleh Musallam, indicated that there is great potential for military cooperation in this regard. "We can not accept that there should remain an occupied part of Syrian territory, whether directly or indirectly. This situation must be brought to an end and all territories should be liberated. And we may cooperate with the regime militarily to liberate our territory from the Turkish occupation ».

For her part, President of the Executive Committee of the «Council of Democratic Syria», Ilham Ahmed, that the areas of self-management in the north and east of Syria, has played an important role since its inception in 2013.

"It is not easy to give up the areas of self-management," said Ahmed, who recently headed the council delegation to Damascus. What is needed is a thorough discussion of the entire Syrian situation, specifically the regime. " Although it did not rule out military cooperation with the Syrian government, it stressed that entering into understandings with the regime was not aimed at Turkey. Ahmed denied that the meeting, which was gathered by representatives of the government in Damascus, dealt in any way with the file of detainees between the two parties, and the possibility of an exchange between them.

The head of the Future Syria Party, Ibrahim Al-Kaftan, who was also a member of the negotiating delegation in Damascus, stressed that «things are open for understanding on the political issues and the constitution, and we can also reach military understandings».