Turkey-backed terrorists steal property of Syrian locals: SANA

Turkey-backed terrorist groups continue to steal and plunder the property of local residents on the outskirts of the Kurdish town of Ra's al-Ayn in the northeastern Syrian province of Hasakah.

Syria's official news agency SANA said on Monday that the groups stole the equipment of irrigation wells, fuel, and farming tools in the village of Tal Mohammad east of Ra's al-Ayn.

“The terrorists driving Turkish cars stormed dozens of houses and pillaged crops and furniture in a number of villages and towns in Ra's al-Ayn countryside,” SANA said.

Turkish ‘occupation’ forces, as SANA reported, were attempting to recruit young local men to “fight alongside their mercenaries either at gunpoint or by tempting … with money.”

The official Syrian news agency said the Turkish-backed terrorists had also carried out excavations and desecrated a shrine located between the villages of Joqa and Kukan in the countryside of Afrin in the northwestern city of Aleppo.

The terrorists searched for archeological artifacts to smuggle and sell in Turkey, with local sources saying they had transported a number of bags from the excavation sites to Afrin.

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