- Videos and photos circulating on social media show intensive logging in the forests of Maydanki and Sharan in Afrin in the northern countryside of Aleppo and Ariha in Idlib as activists accuse members of the opposition-affiliated Sultan Murad Division of cutting down the trees in northwest Syria.
- In a Sept. 2 statement, the Kurdish National Council affiliated with the Syrian Opposition Coalition accused armed groups of cutting down hundreds of hectares of forest in Jindires, the Maydanki Lake area and the surrounding villages.
- The Human Rights Organization in Afrin reported via Facebook Sept. 1 that the Al-Waqqas Brigade opposition faction cut down 3,000 50 hectares of trees in Jindires, while members of the Sultan Murad Division cut down 600,000 to 650,000 trees surrounding the dam of Maydanki Lake and other villages in Afrin.
<span>Careless logging deforests northwest Syria</span>
