An attack in Afrin city targets headquarters of an Islamic brigade operates under the “Olive Branch” Operation Forces within the renewed attacks in the area against the factions
Aleppo Province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the Syrian Observatory monitored clashes in Afrin city which is under the control of “Olive Branch” factions dawn of today Tuesday, the 4th of December 2018, and in the details obtained by the Syrian Observatory: clashes broke out at dawn in the al-Mahmudiya area of Afrin city after an unidentified gunmen attacked one of the headquarters of al-Hamza brigade operating within the “Olive Branch”, and clashes and exchange of targeting took place between both parties then the attackers fled, but no information yet about casualties, and the Syrian Observatory published yesterday, Monday, that the commander of an Islamic battalion belongs to an Islamic Front operating in the “Olive Branch” Operation was killed with another fighter with him and 2 other members of the battalion were injured, when a missile targeted them in Baslehya area at Afrin countryside, this comes within the continued targeting of the forces which control Afrin by groups of YPG sleeper cells and other groups operating in the area, also this comes about 24 hours after an explosion in Jandairis town in the southern countryside of Afrin, intersected sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights that the explosion was caused by a car explosion at the headquarters of the Islamic movement of Ahrar al-Sham in the town, which injured at least 7 members and information about the deaths of fighters, while reliable sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory that 2 fighters were killed and injured in the exchange of targeting and clashes in Deir Meshmesh area in the countryside of Afrin, between factions and cells believed to be of the Kurdish units, and the Syrian Observatory published 2 days ago that 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.