Supervisor Elham AbolFateh
Editor in Chief Mohamed Wadie

Turkish Forces Bomb Aleppo Countryside in New Violation


Sat 19 Dec 2020 | 07:10 PM
Ezzeldin Essam Ezzeldin

In a new aggression to the Turkish forces on the countryside of Aleppo, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored missile strikes on the areas of Kurdish forces deployment.

According to the observatory, the bombing hit the vicinity of "Meng" military airport, the vicinity of "Tal Rifaat" and other sites in the area, without information about casualties so far.

The Syrian Observatory monitored, last week, an attack carried out by the Turkish forces and the factions loyal to them with heavy artillery, targeting the villages of Aqlameya, Al-Malikiyah and Marnaz, in the Sharran sub-district, within the Kurdish forces' deployment areas north of Aleppo.

This coincided with intermittent clashes taking place between the Kurdish forces on one hand, and the pro-Turkish factions on the other hand.

The seams in the northern countryside of Aleppo are witnessing clashes and mutual bombing between the Kurdish forces and the pro-Turkish factions for the third day in a row.

In recent weeks, Turkey has pushed military reinforcements towards the de-escalation zones in Syria, where a military convoy of about 30 vehicles loaded with military and logistical equipment entered and headed towards the Turkish points spread in Jabal Al-Zawiya, south of Idlib.

This brings the number of vehicles that have entered Syria since the start of the new ceasefire, to 7,640, in addition to thousands of soldiers.

The number of trucks and military vehicles that reached the de-escalation zone during the period from February 2, 2020 until now, has increased by more than 10,975 trucks and military vehicles, which carry tanks, troop carriers, armored vehicles, mobile bulletproof guard booths and military radars.

The Turkish-backed factions continue to violate the rights of citizens and their property in the areas of "Peace Spring", by stealing shops and homes and forcing citizens to pay royalties.

In October 2019, the Turkish forces launched a military attack on northern Aleppo, and they and the factions loyal to them took control of areas that were under Kurdish control, over a 120-km-long area on the border, which caused hundreds of deaths and displaced 300,000 people.

The Turkish attack was met with a storm of regional and international condemnation, and many European countries stopped exporting weapons to Turkey, because of the attack, which led to the escape of many elements of the terrorist organization ISIS from the camps of the region.