SOHR: Cross-border attacks between Turkey and Syria worry America
After the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights announced on Saturday that Turkish bombardment had taken place on sites belonging to the regime forces and the Manbij Military Council, which is affiliated with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), northeast of Aleppo, the United States expressed its concern about these developments.
Washington said in a statement issued on the website of the US embassy in Damascus, on Saturday, that there is great concern about cross-border attacks between Turkey and Syria targeting civilian areas.
13 artillery and rocket shells in hours
This came after the Turkish forces stationed at the Al-Tokhar base within the “Euphrates Shield” areas, northeast of Aleppo, targeted the positions of the regime forces and the Manbij Military Council, without receiving information on the size of the losses, according to the observatory’s information.
He added that more than 13 artillery and rocket shells fell on sites in the villages of Awn al-Dadat and Arab Hassan in the countryside of Manbij, northeast of Aleppo.
consecutive attacks
These developments came hours after the killing of 10 soldiers of the Syrian regime forces, on Friday, as a result of the targeting of a bus by fighting factions in the north of the country, in a toll that is the highest in two years.
Factions stationed in the western countryside of Aleppo targeted with a guided missile a bus carrying regime forces from the towns of Nubl and Al-Zahra, killing at least 10 and wounding others, according to Agence France-Presse.
It was also not clear, according to the observatory, the identity of the factions that launched the missile, bearing in mind that Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (formerly al-Nusra) controls the area, while other opposition factions loyal to Turkey also exist.
This attack came after the Turkish Ministry of Defense announced on Thursday that Kurdish militants fired rockets and mortars from Syria at a border military point in the southeast of the country, wounding 4 Turkish soldiers and one civilian.
The ministry added that the army responded by bombing targets in the Ain al-Arab region in northern Syria, where the shooting originated.
It is noteworthy that since March 6, 2020, a ceasefire announced by Moscow and Turkey after a massive attack by the regime forces pushed nearly a million people to flee from the area, has been in force since March 6, 2020, in the areas controlled by the factions in northwestern Syria and parts of neighboring provinces, including the western countryside of Aleppo. .
Such incidents, which saw cross-border exchanges of shelling, occurred intermittently during the past years during the war in Syria.
Source: middleeast-24