The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Controlling crossings kills a member and ignites a new war between Turkish-backed factions in Aleppo countryside

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that clashes using machineguns took place between members of the 9th Division of the Turkish-backed factions, against others of the al-Shamiyyah Front faction in Jarabulus area in the northern countryside of Aleppo, sources reported that there was a dispute on the border crossing with Turkey, while a member of Shamiyyah Front was killed in the clashes and other citizens were injured, and the Syrian Observatory learned that military mobilizations and support headed from several areas to fight with the 9th Division.

And the Syrian Observatory monitored on the 17th of December 2019 that the Turkish-backed factions still raising the state of lawlessness in the areas under their control, where rife weapons in possession of the members poses a threat over the residents, emerges with the first hassle between each other, which turns the area into a real battlefield.

In this context, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored the residents’ discontent due to clashes between the factions of al-Sharqiyyah and Ahrar Al-Sham using individual weapons and machineguns, in Jendires area in Afrin countryside north of Aleppo.