News Center- Three people, including a woman, have been kidnapped in North and East Syria’s city Afrin, occupied by the Turkish state and Turkish-backed groups.

According to the reports of the Hawar News Agency (ANHA), two citizens, a man and a woman, named Ahad Sido and Nazira Hamid Muhammad were kidnapped in the village of Shekhutka in the Mobata district and taken to an unknown location by the members of Turkish-backed factions. A citizen named Hussein Dalu (29) was kidnapped in the village of Hijah in the Janders district by mercenaries, who called themselves police officers.

The news agency also reported that the members of al-Hamza Division cut down hundreds of trees around the village of Kafr Maz in the Shra district. “Sultan Suleiman Shah Division imposed a royalty of 2,000 US dollars on the family of a citizen named Horo Hassan Hesso, a resident of the village of Deir Sawan in the Shra district, in exchange for the return of his house,” ANHA reported.

According to ANHA, Ahrar al-Sharqiya, a Turkish-backed armed group, opened real estate offices in occupied Afrin to sell the homes of displaced people for sums of money ranging between 2,000 and 4,000 US dollars per house.