SOHR knew that an operation of exchange of prisoners took place yesterday between Islamist factions and pro- regime militiamen from the towns of Nobbol and al- Zahraa, which are inhabited by Shiite people, where 10 children and 15 women from the two towns of Nobbol and al- Zahraa were exchanged yesterday for “Yousef Zaw’ah” the leader in an Islamic army and who was arrested by pro- regime militiamen from the towns of Nobbol and al- Zahraa a years ago. This operation took place in a Kurdish mediation between the two parties.

In March 8, SOHR reported that an operation of exchange of prisoners took place today between the Nusra Front and pro- regime militiamen from the towns of Nobbol and al- Zahraa, which are inhabited by Shia people, by a mediation of the Defense and Protection Body of the Democratic Self- Management in Afrin District. In that time, SOHR knew that The Nusra Front handed a woman and her son’s wife, who were kidnapped from the city in Aleppo at Bostan al- Qaser crossing more than a year ago, over for a fighter from the Nusra Front in Idlib province, where the pro- regime militiamen arrested him in the last attack on the towns of Nobbol and al- Zahraa about 2 months ago.

At the same day, SOHR published that it received a copy of a footage shows a journalist in an Islamic front with 4 old women and a girl. The journalist said that they were brought them from other factions in order to swap them with a commander of a group in an Islamic faction who was arrested by the pro- regime militiamen in the towns of Nobbol and al- Zahraa, where the journalist said that the regime forces had arrested some fighters of the rebel and Islamic battalions and that they have tried to communicate through negotiations to exchange bodies and detainees between the regime forces and the rebel and Islamic factions.

“We have some sisters who are not detainees or Sabaya (women as spoils of war) but they are honorable guests bringing them to swap them for an brother in the factions”, the journalist added.

“ We offered this request to whom it may concern from the pro- regime forces in Nobbol and al- Zahraa but they refused it, noting that those sisters existed with us, and that we offered the request through negotiators more than one time but they refused to exchange them for one person who is “Yousef Zaw’ah”, the journalist continued.

The journalist confirmed that the factions, which sent the sisters, gave them a deadline of 72 hours in order to exchange them with Yousef Zaw’ah “The military commander in an Islamic army” otherwise the factions will take them back after the expiry of the deadline.