The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

After the ambush of the western countryside of Aleppo… Northern countryside of Aleppo is witnessing escalated Turkish shelling and exchange of shelling between factions and Syria Democratic Forces

Aleppo province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: clashes took place after the midnight of yesterday between the Syria Democratic Forces against the rebel and Islamic factions of the “Euphrates Shield” forces, in the areas of Kafrkhasher, Kafrkalbin, Shaikh Isa and Marea’ in the northern countryside of Aleppo, amid exchange of shelling between both parties, where a fighter of the rebel factions was killed in the clashes, while several people were injured and some of them are in dangerous situations, as a result of shelling by the Syria Democratic Forces after midnight of yesterday on areas in Azaz city and Kafrkalbin town in the northern countryside of Aleppo, also the Syria Democratic Forces launched after midnight of yesterday Grad missiles on areas in Marea’ town in the northern countryside of Aleppo, which caused injuries and information about casualties, was areas controlled by the Syria Democratic Forces in the northern countryside of Aleppo and outskirts Afrin were shelled yesterday intensively by the Kurdish forces and the factions, where the northern countryside is witnessing an escalation of Turkish shelling and exchange of shelling between the factions and the Syria Democratic Forces since the dawn of the 13th of June 2017, the date of the ambush that killed 36 fighters of the factions and injured others.

Another military commander and another leader in a Turkish-backed rebel division from Homs province were killed and others injured, as a result of an explosion at their headquarters in the northern countryside of Aleppo, caused by an IED explosion in the headquarters, while a missile believed to be ground-to-ground launched by the regime forces after midnight of yesterday and landed on areas in Jam’eyyat Al-Zahra’a neighborhood west of Aleppo, no information about injuries, also several shells landed after midnight of yesterday on areas in Jam’eyyat Al-Zahra’a neighborhood and in the vicinity of al-Rasul al-A’azam Mosque west of Aleppo, which caused material damage.