The Turkish forces and the factions shell again north of Aleppo and area in Afrin along with targeting between them and the SDF on the border line

The artillery shelling by the Turkish forces and the Turkish backed factions is still ongoing on Afrin area and the northern countryside of Aleppo, where the SDF-held area located, and the SOHR monitored shelling targeting places in Tel Refa’at area and other areas near al-Shahba’ dam, which is controlled by the SDF. They also shelled areas in Afrin district, where an exchange of shelling and machine gun fire took place between the SDF against the Turkish forces in the borders of Afrin and the Turkish side, and there is no information about causalities so far.

The Turkish forces targeted for the second time in a row, the countryside of Al-Malkiya area (Dirik) in the Syrian-Iraqi-Turkish triangle border, in the far northeast of Hassaka province, causing material damage, and no information about human losses, 72 hours after targeting Baraz area located in the same triangle area.  The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published today morning that it  learned that the shelling on Afrin area by the Turkish forces and the factions supported by them that operate within “The Euphrates Shield” Operation, is still continuing after it entered its second week since it started on the 13th of January 2018, and reliable sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights that the shelling which was carried out today the 20th of January 2018, targeted areas in Qarrah Baba village and Jisr Hashraka as well as other places in the townships of Raju and Bulbula in Afrin countryside, in conjunction with shelling targeted areas in the villages of Bailuniyyah, Al-Malikiyah and Maraanaz in the northern countryside of Aleppo, and the shelling resulted in the fall of 2 wounded rising to 6 people including 2 children and a woman, the number of citizens, who were injured since the first day of escalation in addition to a fighter was killed few days before this shelling, and the shelling was accompanied by the flight of Turkish reconnaissance planes over Afrin area.