Syrian tribal leader: Iraqi People's Mobilisation Forces is inside Syria

The Iraqi People’s Mobilisation Forces entered Syria on Tuesday and took control of Syrian villages near the Iraqi border, the head of the High Council of Syrian Tribes said yesterday.

In an interview with the Anadolu Agency, Sheikh Rafi Ukla Al-Rajo said that the Iraqi Shia forces, thought to be backed by Iran, are aiming to progress towards the city of Deir ez-Zor, which is under Daesh’s control, in east Syria. He noted that this is being done in coordination with the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD), the Syrian branch of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).

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He stated that the People’s Mobilisation Forces are currently within Syria’s borders, in the Al-Hawl and Al-Shaddadi areas in the Hasaka municipality, and they’ve occupied the villages of Tal Ksaiba, Tal al-Jayer, Al-Bawardi, Al-Atshana, Tell Safouk, and Masharee’ al-dawla. These villages were all under the control of the PYD.

Al-Rajo added that members of Daesh had previously withdrew from these villages and handed them over to the PYD, and they are now being handed over to the People’s Mobilisation Forces.

He said:

What is happening at the moment proves coordination between the People’s Mobilisation Forces, Daesh and the PYD and their conspiracy against the Syrian people.