Third patrol in April: Russian and Turkish troops conduct joint patrol in rural Ain al-Arab (Kobani)

SOHR activists say that Russian and Turkish forces conducted on Monday morning a new joint patrol in western countryside of Ain al-Arab (Kobani). Russian-Turkish armored vehicles set off from the village of Ashma and roamed villages and towns in the western countryside of Kobani, with two Russian helicopters flying over the area at low altitude.

On April 16, Syrian Observatory sources confirmed that the Russian and Turkish forces have conducted a new joint patrol in the eastern countryside of Ain Al-Arab (Kobani). Four Russian armored vehicles and four other Turkish ones toured the villages of Shiran, Tal Hajib, Hulaqi, and other villages in eastern Ain Al-Arab. The patrol was escorted with two Russian helicopters flying over the area at low altitude.

Observatory sources reported seeing a large Russian military column heading from Manbij area in the north-eastern countryside of Aleppo towards Ain Al-Arab city (Kobani) in the same countryside. The column, which contained tens of military vehicles, was escorted by a Russian helicopter flying at low altitude