Iran Press/ Middle East: “armed groups affiliated to QSD militia stormed into Tabqa city in the western countryside of Raqqa and set up checkpoints in the area and kidnapped 15 young men,” local sources told SANA
The sources added that the armed groups abducted the 15 young men and took them to compulsory recruitment camps to force them to fight in the militia ranks.
QSD militia have for years carried out widespread arrests of Arab residents in Raqqa, Deir ez-Zur, and al-Hasakah provinces, an issue that has sometimes been accompanied by popular demonstrations in various cities and villages against the QSD militia.
Being forced to fight in the QSD militia ranks is one reason why young people living in northeastern Syria are migrating to European countries for exorbitant sums. 219
