New round of clashes between factions working in Afrin countryside and members of cells working in the area

Aleppo Province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored clashes after midnight of yesterday in Deri Meshmesh area in the vicinity of Afrin city in the northwestern countryside of Aleppo, between factions working in the area there against unknown gunmen believed to be of YPG cells, where the clashes were accompanied by exchange of targeting, but no information yet about human casualties, and the Syrian Observatory published on Friday that the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that a group of the Special Forces within the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), has attacked a positions of the factions of “the Euphrates Shield” in Ablah village near Al-Bab city in the north-eastern countryside of Aleppo, where this group managed through an infiltration they carried out, to kill 3 members at least of one of the factions loyal to Turkey, and confiscate their weapons, before the attackers withdrew to their positions from which they carried out this infiltration, while this operation is coincided with another operation by a group of the YPG in Bulbula Township in Afrin countryside which is under the control of the factions of “Olive Branch” in the north-western countryside of Aleppo, where another group of the YPG attacked posts of factions close to Turkey in Hayamili village in Bulbula Township, led to the outbreak of clashes between the both parties, which left casualties in the ranks of the factions, before the attacking group withdrew.

And the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has monitored more than 140 operations targeted “Olive Branch” in Afrin area, since the Kurdish forces lost Afrin area at the end of the second third of March 2018, where it rose to 677, the number of members of the Turkish forces and the rebel and Islamic factions including 83 Turkish soldiers, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented the death of at least 1582 fighters of YPG and Self-Defense Forces, who have been killed since the start of Operation “Olive Branch”, also at least 91 of the popular members of the regime forces have been killed in the Turkish bombardment since they entered on the 20th of February 2018, while the Turkish forces have carried out about 140 assassinations and targeting against the forces controlling Afrin, while leading sources of the YPG denied that their forces or cells had relation or responsibility for many of the assassinations and acts of torture; some of which appeared on videos and attributed to the Kurdish Forces, and the sources accused other cells belong to other parties of carrying out these assassinations and attributing them to the Kurdish Forces for their own agenda, the main aim of which is to escalating their violations against the civilians, where the resentment has been increasing among the civilians day after day, with the unfair and unjust procedures, and the silence of the Turkish Forces -who are leading the “Olive Branch” operation- and not responding to their complaints.