Hours after the bloody clashes stopped, a bombing hits the military police in Afrin city injuries 10 mostly military

Aleppo Province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: a violent explosion shook Afrin city in the northwestern sector of Aleppo countryside, which is controlled by the Turkish forces and factions of “Olive Branch” Operation, following the stop of violent and bloody clashes against Ahrar al-Sharqiyyah gathering, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that the explosion was caused by the detonation of a booby-trapped motorcycle at the entrance of the military police in the middle of Afrin city, where reliable sources confirmed that the explosion injured 10 people, and most of them are members of the guards and the Free Military Police, some of them are still in serious condition. This bombing comes in the wake of the violent clashes which killed at least 25 Syrian fighters of “Olive Branch” operation forces, which were involved in fighting another faction of the arms comrades in the operation of controlling Afrin area, where the Syrian Observatory published a little while ago that Afrin city in the northwestern countryside of Aleppo -which is under the control of the Turkish-backed “Olive Branch” Factions- is witnessing cautious calm, after a bloody day in the city against the backdrop of attacks by the Turkish forces and fighters of the rebel and Islamic factions of the “Olive Branch” Forces, against the faction of Shuhada’a al-Sharqiyyah gathering in the neighborhoods of Mahmudiya and al-Villat in Afrin city, which lasted until after midnight of yesterday, before an agreement was reached by other factions headed by Ahrar al-Sharqiyyah, where the Syrian Observatory learned that the agreement provides for Abu Khawla, the commander-in-Chief of Ahrar al-Sharqiyyah, to hand himself, and the members of Ahrar al-Sharqiyyah to handed over themselves later in the form of batches in the coming hours, and reliable sources told the Syrian Observatory that the attacking factions have entered after midnight of yesterday to sites of Ahrar al-Sharqiyyah gathering, but Abu Khawla was not found until now, amid continuous searches of him, while the factions arrested several fighters of Ahrar al-Sharqiyyah, and in the same context, the Syrian Observatory learned that fighters from Ahrar al-Sharqiyyah are still under the rubble of Turkish shelling and shelling of the factions that targeted the headquarters of Ahrar al-Sharqiyyah faction, and the sources told the Syrian Observatory that several fighters are still alive trapped under the rubble, while the Syrian Observatory published on yesterday evening that the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored the continued violent fighting between Shuhada’a al-Sharqiyyah Gathering on one hand, against the Turkish forces and fighters of the rebel and Islamic factions operating under the banner of the “Olive Branch” forces on the other, in areas in the neighborhoods of Al-Villat and Al-Mahmudiyah in Afrin city, which has been controlled by the Turkish forces and the factions since the 19th of March 2018, and the Syrian Observatory monitored that the violent clashes were accompanied by shelling which targeted headquarters of Shuhada’a al-Sharqiyyah Gathering, and the operation is coincided with the curfew imposed in the area, and information was received about the cessation of clashes for a short time in order to allow the residents of the area where the clashes are taking place, to leave their homes.

The Syrian Observatory monitored that Turkish tanks and heavy vehicles have entered the battle front against Shuhada’a al-Sharqiyyah, where the intersected sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory that the Turkish forces, and after the failure of the factions in ending the situation with Shuhada’a al-Sharqiyyah Gathering, entered strongly on the clash line and brought armored vehicles and heavy weapons, which the forces used for shelling the headquarters of Shuhada’a al-Sharqiyyah Gathering and their vicinities, and the clashes caused material damage and the break out of fire in several houses in the neighborhoods of Al-Villat and Al-Mahmudiyah, and resulted in the fall of casualties in the ranks of the both parties, where it rose to 25, the number of fighters of the both parties who were killed in this fighting which is the most violent one in 8 months of control of the Turkish forces and the forces of the “Olive Branch” Operation over Afrin city, where the SOHR monitored the death of 14 fighters of Shuhada’a al-Sharqiyyah while the rest are fighters of the attacking factions, amid information about the death of Turkish soldiers in this fighting, the fighting also resulted in the fall of a number of wounded and there is information about civilian casualties.