Farmer Nizar al-Awwad has stopped irrigating his land in northeast Syria from a local river polluted by an oil spill that residents and officials in the Kurdish-held area blame on Turkish strikes."All the farmers in the area have stopped using the river for irrigation," said Awwad, 30, from a village near Tal Brak, in Hasakeh province.
Farmer Nizar al-Awwad has stopped irrigating his land in northeast Syria from a local river polluted by an oil spill that residents and officials in the Kurdish-held area blame on Turkish strikes. "All the farmers in the area have stopped using the river for irrigation," said Awwad, 30, from a village near Tal Brak, in Hasakeh province. "We'd be killing our land with our own hands if we used the polluted water," he said.
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31 December، 2020
Raqqa and Hasaka, SANA – The US occupation – backed QSD militia kidnapped on Thursday tens of civilians in Raqqa and Hasaka countryside.
Civil sources told SANA reporter that groups of QSD militia set up checkpoints and launched a campaign of raids on villages, east of Raqqa city, Ain Issa city and in the surrounding of Tal al-Samen town in the far northern countryside and kidnapped 55 civilians, among them a woman, taking them to an unknown destination.
Meanwhile, in Hasaka countryside, Civil sources told SANA reporter that the QSD militia cordoned off Tal Brak town and kidnapped a number of young men to force them fight in their ranks, while armed groups from QSD militia raided the fourth section of al-Hawl Camp and kidnapped a number of civilians , taking them to an unknown destination.