Backed by Turkish forces | Ankara-backed factions attack Kurdish forces, north of Aleppo

Aleppo Province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights:

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has monitored, in the early hours of the morning, an attack by Ankara-backed factions on positions of the Kurdish forces on Mar’anaz frontline in northern Aleppo countryside, backed by Turkish forces. Fierce clashes took place between the two sides, accompanied by intensive shelling and exchange of fire, amid confirmed reports of casualties on both sides.

Moreover, an exchange of fire with heavy machine guns took place between the factions and Kurdish forces, south of the city of Azaz, but no casualties have been reported.

Yesterday, SOHR sources reported that Turkish forces stationed in military bases in the northern countryside of Aleppo shelled, with artillery, the villages of Sha’alah, Zawayan, and Tel Madiq which are under the control of Kurdish forces in the area of Al-Shahbaa in the northern countryside of Aleppo. However, no casualties were reported.

Two days ago, SOHR activists documented the death of a Turkish-backed militiaman and injury of two others during an infiltration operation by Kurdish forces in the early hours of Saturday morning on a military post on Kafr Khasher frontline in the south of Azaz city in the northern countryside of Aleppo.