Alwaght- ISIS terrorist killed hundreds of men and raped dozens of women as they were forces to withdraw from countryside of Manbij in the northern Aleppo province, local sources and activists reported.
As Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) are advancing towards ISIS-held town of Manbij, ISIS terrorists take revenge from civilians, whom the terror group accuses of cooperating with SDF, ARA news reported.
The SDF is an anti-ISIS alliance of Arab, Assyrian, Armenian, Turkmen, and mostly Kurdish fighters belonging to the People's Protection Units, also known as the YPG.
The news website cited media activist Nassir Taljbini as saying that ISIS terrorists "over more than two years of their control over Manbij, were generally careful with their behavior towards the people in a bid to gain popular support. However, since the SDF troops started their campaign and made gains against the ISIS, the group’s members in Manbij started punishing civilians collectively after accusing them of supporting the SDF.”
“They have killed hundreds of men and raped dozens of women in the past few days, especially in the western countryside of Manbij, before withdrawing from most of the villages there," he added.
One of the victims told ARA News that ISIS terrorists broke into their house and killed her husband and raped her and her two daughters. “They entered the house like barbarians. They shot my husband and raped me and my daughters. We’re still in shock after what happened. I have nothing to say to describe it… a nightmare,” she said.
ISIS terrorists have also burned a number of houses in Manbij western villages before withdrawing.
Meanwhile, ISIS terrorists abduct civilians from villages in the vicinity of Manbij to use them as human shield during the clashes with SDF coalition, the same tactic the terror group used in the past when Syrian and Iraqi army attacked their strongholds.
ISIS terrorists broke into the villages of Shawa, Qaarkalbin, Tel Jarja, Sosinbat, Numan and Qabasin, near Manbij and kidnapped more than 210 Kurdish civilians last week.
“They drove young people out of their homes, including men and women, and they moved them away by large trucks. We don’t know where they’ve been taken,” an eyewitness in Tel Jarja told ARA news. “ISIS fighters left behind the elderly and children, they only took the young and healthy boys and girls.”
Most of the kidnapped were young men and some of them were women, raising concerns over their destiny, as the group may use them as human shields in its battles with SDF.
