As clashes continues on its western frontlines | SDF closes the entrances to the city of Ain Issa with military checkpoints, preventing the entry of those who do not belong to the city

Al-Raqqah governorate – Syrian Observatory for Human Rights:

Reliable sources have informed the Syrian Observatory that the Syrian Democratic Forces closed the entrances to the city of Ain Issa with military checkpoints, and prevented the entry of anyone who does not belong to the city, while a column of regime forces comprising dozens of soldiers withdrew from the “93th Brigade” in the area of Ain Issa, without knowing the reasons.

This coincides with the ongoing violent clashes between regime forces and the Syrian Democratic Forces on the one hand, and Turkish forces and proxy factions on the other, on western frontlines of Ain Issa from the side of the villages of Sayda and Ma’alq, amid exchange of rocket fire between the two sides.

SOHR sources have monitored this morning violent clashes on Ain Issa frontlines, the capital of the “Self-Administration” in the northern countryside of Raqqa province, between Turkish forces and proxy factions on the one hand, and the Syrian Democratic Forces and regime forces on the other, on the side of the town of Ma’alaq on the western side of Ain Issa, in an attempt by Turkish forces and proxy factions to advance towards the road connecting Ain Issa to the city of Ain al-Arab (Kobani) and cut it off, amid exchange of intensive rocket fire in the area, and confirmed reports of casualties.