The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Death toll update | The number of regime soldiers ki*lled in Turkish airstrikes jumps to 18

Aleppo province: SOHR activists have documented the death of two regime soldiers, succumbed to the wounds he sustained in Turkish airstrikes on Shawarghah village in the northern countryside of Aleppo on November 19.

 

Accordingly, the number of regime soldiers who were killed in that post has risen to 12, while the total number of fatalities among regime forces in the Turkish attack on Aleppo- Al-Hasakah and Al-Raqqah countryside has risen to 18 soldiers, including two officers.

 

Yesterday, SOHR activists documented the death of six members of regime forces, including officers, in Turkish airstrikes on a military post in Shawarghah village.

 

SOHR sources had reported that the number of people who were killed in the last night’s airstrikes by Turkish fighter jets on different areas in Aleppo, Al-Hasakah and Al-Raqqah has risen to 37. The number of fatalities is expected to rise further, as there are nearly 33 people injured and missing, while some have sustained serious injuries.

 

The fatalities are distributed as follows:

 

-13 members of military formations operating in SDF-controlled areas:

 

  • Ten were killed in Jabal Qarrah Jokh area in Al-Malikiyah countryside (Dayrek) in Al-Hasakah province; they are five members, including a woman, of the “Essential Protection Forces” and five SDF fighters and Asayish members.

 

  • Two SDF fighters were killed in Zahr Al-Arab village in the western countryside of Al-Darbasiyah in Al-Hasakah province.

 

  • An SDF fighter was killed in Abu Rasin countryside (Zarkan).

 

-Regime forces: 18 fatalities:

 

  • 12 were killed in Shawarghah village in north-western Aleppo.

 

  • Four were killed in strikes on a post of regime border guards in Um Harmal village in Abu Rasin countryside in north-western Al-Hasakah.

 

  • Two were killed in strikes on a military post in Qaz’ali village in Tel Abyad countryside in northern Al-Raqqah.

 

-One correspondent working for a press agency was killed in Jabal Qarrah Jokh area in Al-Malikiyah countryside (Dayrek).

 

-Five Kurdish fighters were killed in Baylouniyah frontline in northern Aleppo.

 

It is worth noting that Turkish fighter jets targeted those areas with over 25 airstrikes last night, as well as targeting an under-construction hospital in Jabal Mashtanour area in Ain Al-Arab countryside (Kobani).