Feuding factions | Clashes erupt among Turkish-backed factions near a refugee camp in northern Aleppo, injuring many

Aleppo Province – Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: SOHR sources have reported violent clashes, this evening, among Turkish-backed factions near Al-Nour refugee camp in Shamarin town in the northern countryside of Aleppo. The clashes erupted between members of “Al-Mu’tasim Division”, who tried to arrest a displaced boy from Tal Rifat town inside Al-Nour camp, and members of “Al-Jabha Al-Shamiyyah” who prevented them from arresting the boy.

 

The clashes have left several people injured and caused material damage, while the camp’s inhabitants called upon the military police to intervene and break up the clashes between both sides.

 

On Monday, SOHR activists documented the death of a military commander of the Turkish-backed division of “Sultan Murad” after he was shot by a member of the same division. According to SOHR sources the member shot dead the commander after the commander had shot a woman of the member’s relatives while trying to force her out of the house she lived in Al-Ashrafiyah neighbourhood in Afrin city. The member later turned himself in to the police claiming that this murder was an “honor crime”.

 

SOHR activists had monitored growing popular discontent and panic, along with Turkish-backed factions being on high alert in Azaz city in north-eastern Aleppo. These developments coincided with a security campaign by members believed to be of Turkish-backed factions who came in a “Santa Fe” car to arrest several people at a shop in the market of Azaz city, where clashes erupted between the security forces and the shop’s owners with machineguns and grenades. The clashes left several injured.