The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

An explosion in a vehicle of a security commander in Afrin countryside leaves human losses of his family

Aleppo Province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored the sound of an explosion in Afrin countryside, in the north-western sector of Aleppo countryside, caused by an IED explosion in a vehicle of a security commander in a Division close to Turkey, on Afrin – Sheik Roz Road, which resulted in the injury members of the commander’s family including children and citizen women in addition to information about the death of a man was with them, and he is one of the relatives of the commander, and the Syrian Observatory published on Wednesday, that 2 explosions were heard in the countryside of Afrin area, in the north-western sector of Aleppo countryside, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned from intersected source, that the first explosion was caused by an IED explosion near the headquarters of an Islamic faction close to Turkey, which injured several persons, while a second IED exploded in a vehicle on Rajo – Afrin Road, which injured a number of fighters of one of the factions operating under the banner of Operation “Olive Branch”, amid information about the death of at least 2 fighters of them, and the Syrian Observatory published about 48 hours ago, that it monitored 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.