"The chilling video was posted on Facebook on January 22 by an account based in Germany which has since been shut down. The video is filmed by a man who appears to be part of the majority-Kurdish group the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), posing selfie-style in front of a row of bodies on the ground. He's smiling broadly and has a rifle slung over his arm."
"In the video, he claims that one of the fighters with the SDF who are thought to have committed this massacre joked that they should blow the bodies up. A second video shows bullets being fired at the bodies, though it is unclear who is shooting. This footage documents a massacre that took place on January 22 near Kobane in northwestern Syria."
"January 2026 saw significant numbers of SDF forces retreating from the Syrian cities of Deir ez-Zor and Raqqa towards Kobane. On January 19, clashes broke out between these fighters and the Syrian Army near the Tishrin Dam south of Kobane. Sometime after that, in circumstances that are still unclear, doors were opened at Yeddi Qawi, a prison located south of Kobane, resulting in the flight of many of the people who had been imprisoned there."
A man appearing to be an SDF fighter filmed a selfie-style video standing before a row of lifeless bodies, smiling with a rifle slung over his shoulder. He says one of the SDF fighters joked that they should blow the bodies up. A second video shows bullets fired at the bodies, though the shooter is unclear. The footage records a massacre on January 22 near Kobane. Local reports state the SDF carried out extrajudicial killings of at least 21 young men after releases from Yeddi Qawi Prison. Syrian Civil Defence recovered 15 bodies amid recent SDF retreats and clashes.
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