📅 Date: 9/1/2026
📍 Location: New Suryan Neighborhood – Aleppo

Footage captured during a live broadcast on a channel loyal to the terrorist de facto authority shows the presence of an armed member of the Syrian Civil Defense, operating under the Ministry of Emergency and Disaster Management in the Transitional Government of Syria.

During the live broadcast, the member was seen carrying a pistol while covering clashes in the area, before quickly concealing the weapon upon realizing that the scene was being aired live.

This constitutes a breach of neutrality standards and Civil Defense obligations in conflict zones, in accordance with International Humanitarian Law.

Field documentation confirms that terrorist factions operating within the Ministry of Defense of the interim Damascus government (the de facto authority) have carried out arbitrary arrests of Kurdish civilians without any charges, solely on the basis of their ethnic identity.

⚠️ Documented patterns of abuse:
• Physical and verbal assaults against detainees.
• Forcing some detainees to perform degrading and humiliating acts, including being forced to bark, reflecting practices previously documented in the Syrian coast and Suwayda.
• Ongoing detention of Kurdish youths seized from the streets surrounding the Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood.
• Fabrication of ready-made accusations related to alleged “SDF cells” to justify detention.

❗These facts indicate a pattern of targeting based on ethnic identity, amounting to serious human rights violations, and confirm that what is taking place is a systematic campaign against Kurdish civilians, rather than any legitimate security operation.

📍 Location: Aleppo – Al-Ashrafieh Neighborhood

One of the terrorist operatives affiliated with the Ministry of Defense factions of the interim government (the de facto authority) has been identified as having participated in a systematic campaign of arbitrary arrests targeting Kurdish civilian youths, carried out without any legal basis and solely on the grounds of their ethnic identity.

👤 Name of the terrorist operative:
Yasser Al-Ahmad

🔴 Documented violations include:
• Arbitrary arrest of Kurdish civilians solely due to their ethnic background.
• Physical and verbal abuse inflicted on detainees.
• Forcing detainees to bark and engage in degrading and humiliating acts, reflecting a criminal pattern previously documented in the Syrian coast and in As-Suwayda.

🛑 Public endorsement of violations and prayers for the perpetrators — societal legitimization of crime

🧾 Examples of inciting and hate speech found in comments (quoted verbatim for documentation purposes):
• “Remember, my son, the mother is like the homeland: she carries you, feeds you, and gives you water — and if she gets angry, she beats you. Do you want a state or chaos?”
• “Hit the face, hero, not the leg.”
• “May no one bark except them, the boya group.”
• “God bless the young men, may God strengthen you, protect you, and bless you.”
• “It turns out the Kurds know how to bark more than the Alawites.”
• “May your religion be victorious.”

❗Legal and human rights significance:
These comments constitute additional evidence of an inciting and enabling environment that actively encourages the commission of serious violations and contributes to the normalization of violence and hate speech against a specific civilian group, in clear violation of international human rights law and international humanitarian law, and reinforce individual and collective responsibility for incitement and indirect participation in crimes.