Clash violently continue between SDF against the Turkish-backed factions with intense shelling in the northern countryside of Aleppo
Aleppo province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the Syria Democratic Forces targeted by mortar shells areas in Azaz city and Jibreen village in the northern countryside of Aleppo, in conjunction with heavy and intense shelling by the Turkish forces and their supported factions, on areas controlled by the Syria Democratic Forces in the northern countryside of Aleppo and in the countryside of Afrin, amid the continuation of the clashes between the Syria Democratic Forces against the Turkish-supported factions, in Ein Daqneh and Mar’anaz east and north of Menagh airbase, in the northern countryside of Aleppo, and confirmed information about casualties in the ranks of both parties and capturing an SDF fighter by the factions.
These clashes come after preparations by the Turkish forces in the past days, with the preparations of by the factions of the countryside of Aleppo along with the Turkish forces to carry out a wide-scale military operation against the Syria Democratic Forces in Afrin and the area located between Marea’ and Deir Jamal in the northern countryside of Aleppo, which aims to get thousands of displaced people to their villages, where the Afrin Area and its outskirts is witnessing an escalation of Turkish shelling and exchange of shelling between the factions and the Syria Democratic Forces along with the tension that prevailed the area since the 20th of June 2017, with the start entry of the Turkish reinforcement to the southern countryside of Azaz.
The shelling in the past few days has killed 6 citizens and injured others, some of whom were critically injured, it is mentioned that 53 persons at least of the rebel and Islamic factions were killed and documented by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights; after an attack carried out on the 27th of April 2016 on the areas of al-Bilona and Ein Daqneh in the northern countryside of Aleppo, were the factions attempted to regain control over both areas which were previously controlled by the Syria Democratic Forces, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights received a copy of a video shows about 50 bodies on a tank carrier of Syria Democratic Forces, and the bodies were toured the streets of Afrin city amid hundreds of citizens, also during the clashes 11 fighters of the Syria Democratic Forces were killed and others were injured.