Death toll of factional infighting | Ten civilians and Turkish-backed militiamen killed and injured in areas held by Turkish-backed factions in rural Aleppo

SOHR activists have documented the death of two civilians and the injury of four others, including children displaced from Andan city in Aleppo countryside by rocket shell that hit their house due to the bloody and ongoing clashes between Ahrar Al-Sham and Al-Jabha Al-Shamiyyah in Ablah village, west of Al-Bab city in the eastern countryside of Aleppo.

SOHR activists have also documented the death of two military personnel and the wounding of two others in these clashes.

This morning, SOHR sources reported that Al-Jabha Al-Shamiyyah faction managed to control villages, which had the majority of Kurds, in Tel Batal and Abla in Al-Bab countryside, east of Aleppo, after fierce clashes with heavy and medium machineguns erupted between splinter groups from Ahrar Al-Sham faction and Al-Jabha Al-Shamiyyah faction.

According to SOHR activists, Al-Jabha Al-Shamiyyah militiamen cordoned off the villages of Ablah and Tel Batal on Saturday morning, and then stormed the headquarters of Ahrar Al-Sham faction.

After fierce clashes, Al-Jabha Al-Shamiyyah fighters managed to control most of the headquarters of Ahrar Al-Sham and arrested a number of Ahrar al-Sham militiamen. All the fighters of the two factions withdraw to the outskirts of the villages.

Ahrar Al-Sham faction deployed their fighters in Al-Bab city, while Al-Jabha Al-Shamiyyah faction brought in large military reinforcements of tanks and heavy guns with 57 shoots from Azaz city to Al-Bab.

The reasons for the clashes, which caused the death of a militiaman of Ahrar Al-Sham and the injury of a number of other militiamen, remained unknown.