Syrian authorities arrest two Kurdish youths near Palmyra

Yekiti Media

Syrian authorities arrested two Kurdish youths from Qamishlo as they were returning to their city at a military checkpoint in the Badia region east of Palmyra.

According to media sources, they are: Hameed Salman Mahmoud and SHekho Faisal Khalil, both from the Al-Hilaliya neighborhood. They were accompanying a Gulf-Jordanian tourist group on a hunting trip, working as tour guides for the group.

The sources reported that the checkpoint personnel detained all members of the group before releasing the tourists after verifying their identities, as they were Kuwaiti and Jordanian nationals, while the two Kurdish youths were detained without any official explanation for their arrest.

It should be noted that similar incidents of arrests of people from the Kurdish region have been repeated in recent times.