KURDWATCH, June 22, 2013—On June 16, 2013, members of the Asayiş, the security service of the Democratic Union Party (PYD), kidnapped Aras Husayn Abdullah, a member of ʿAbdulhakim Bashar’s Kurdish Democratic Party in Syria (el‑Partî) at the Faysh Khabur border crossing (east of al‑Malikiyah [Dêrik]) when he tried to return to Syria from Iraqi-Kurdistan.