The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

In a clear defiance of the American – Turkish joint patrols, pro-Turkish factions continue attacking Manbij Military Council and civilians in the area

Aleppo Province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored new targeting carried out by factions close to and supported by Turkey in Manbij area in the northeastern countryside of Aleppo, and in the details obtained by the Syrian Observatory: a checkpoint of Manbij Military Council located to the south of Manbij town, was attacked by fighters of the Turkish-backed “Euphrates Shield” factions after midnight of yesterday, where 4 members of Manbij Military Council were killed in the attack, which comes within the series of the almost-daily attacks and targeting of civilians and Manbij Military Council by Turkish-backed factions, since the start of the second round of joint American – Turkish patrols in the area on the 8th of November 2018, where the Syrian Observatory published on Sunday evening, the 11th of November 2018, that the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored gunfire in Manbij countryside which is under the control of Manbij Military Council Forces, in the northern sector of Aleppo countryside, and several intersected sources confirmed to the SHOR that the gunfire was caused by targeting by fighters of the factions of the “Euphrates Shield” Operation, to Al-Mohsenli area in Manbij countryside, which resulted in the injury of 2 persons, and the sources confirmed that the targeting operations were repeated in the recent days in the area, where targeting operations were carried out to the olive farmers and the workers in olive plantations in the area, and the Syrian Observatory published yesterday, that it monitored Islamic factions within “Euphrates Shield” Operation opening their heavy machineguns’ fire on areas in al-Hamran village in northwest of Manbij city in the northeastern countryside of Aleppo, where they targeted positions of the Syria Democratic Forces and other areas in farmland while the citizens were harvesting olive in the area, after the Turkish and American forces agreed to run joint patrols again along the line between areas of Manbij Military Council and areas of “Euphrates Shield” Operation Forces, in the northeastern sector of Aleppo countryside, which were started on the 1st of November 2018.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published on the 8th of November 2018 that the Syrian Observatory Monitored the start of the second round of joint patrols on the line between areas of control of Manbij Military Council in Manbij and the forces of “Euphrates Shield” operation and the Turkish forces, and in the details monitored by the Syrian Observatory: the US Forces and the International Coalition sated the second round of joint patrols with the Turkish Forces along the line between areas of control of the forces supported by each side in the northeastern countryside of Aleppo, where the Syrian Observatory recorded a video showing patrols drive an observe the ceasefire and field matters in Manbij countryside, in conjunction with the flight of helicopters and warplanes of the International Coalition in the sky of Manbij area, after the first patrol was started on the first of November 2018.