The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Mines planted earlier cause more human casualties in Aleppo countryside

Aleppo Province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: a landmine exploded on the road that connects the towns of Kaljibrin and Jarez in the northern countryside of Aleppo, which is controlled by the pro-Turkish factions of “Euphrates Shield”, which killed a fighter of the factions and injured others, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published on the 3rd of March 2019 that the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored the sound of violent explosion in the north-eastern countryside of Aleppo, caused by detonating a booby-trapped motorcycle in Qebbasin town which is near Al-Bab city in the north-eastern countryside of Aleppo, and which is controlled by the forces of the faction “Euphrates Shield”, which resulted in the fall of injuries, as a part of renewing the security chaos within Aleppo countryside and the controlled areas of the Turkish forces and the factions loyal to them, where the SOHR published on the 21st of February 2019, that it documented human losses due to the explosion of a booby-trapped vehicle in Al-Ghandoura town near Jarabulus in the north-eastern sector of Aleppo countryside, where at least 3 members of the factions of the “Euphrates Shield” and the Military Police, where killed while dismantling the booby-trapped vehicle, also information was received about other casualties in the ranks of the Turkish forces in the same explosion, and this explosion comes hours after the bombing of Afrin in the north-west of Aleppo, where the SOHR published hours ago, that the violent bombing that hit downtown Afrin city which is controlled by the Turkish Forces and “Olive Branch” operation factions; have caused significant casualties, where the Syrian Observatory documented the death of 2 citizens (a man from Afrin and a child) and 20 persons at least were injured, and some of them were transported to hospitals in Turkey for treatment, and the death toll is expected to rise because there are some people in critical situation. The Syrian Observatory published hours ago that  a severe explosion was heard in Afrin city in the northwestern countryside of Aleppo, which is under the control of the pro-Turkish factions of “Euphrates Shield” , caused by a booby-trapped explosion near Dirsem Hospital in the Villat Street in the city, which injured several people some of them are in dangerous situations including children, and the explosion caused fires in the area and the ambulances headed to it. This explosion came after a military parade carried out by “Olive Branch” Operation Forces inside Afrin city, during which the they launched slogans in Turkish language and the Turkish flags were raised in the military parade, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published on the 20th of February 2019 that the National Army which operates in the Syrian North and is backed by Turkey, has issued a statement about the new security campaign which comes few weeks after a similar campaign in Aleppo countryside within the controlled areas of the “Euphrates Shield” which was against other factions and battalions at that time, but this time, the campaign targets the drug dealers according to the statement -of which the Syrian Observatory received a copy- and it stated “To our people in the Syrian North, as a completion of the peace campaign launched by the Syrian National Army achieving its firs goal of arresting the corrupted and rebel commanders and groups, a new phase of the campaign starts today, where it is going to work on achieving the second goal through prosecuting and arresting the drug dealers in order to stop their criminality by dealing with their peers of the gangs of the PKK and of the criminal regime in the occupied areas, and as a result it will clean the area and stop their plan to crush the liberated areas through weakening the youth who are the main pillar of building the community, and will cut off a major source of the sources of support and funding which the PKK’s terrorist gangs depend on, the campaign is continuing with its previous and current goals and we appeal to our people in the Liberated North to cooperate with the command of the National Army, so that the campaign achieves the perfect success of its goals”.