In the first hours of their aerial operations…the Turkish warplanes continue to target Afrin and bomb more areas
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned from a number reliable sources that the violent clashes are still continuing between the Turkish forces against the Syria Democratic Forces, in areas in the northern countryside of Afrin on the border with Turkey, amid targeting accompanying the clashes between them, and no information about casualties was reported yet, while the Turkish warplanes are continuing to are continuing their targeting to areas in Afrin countryside, where they targeted Menagh Airbase area as well as other areas in Afrin city, and other places in Ein Daqneh, Bailuniyyah, Aqbiya, Kardu, Sheikh Khurzah, Ghazawiyah, Haj Hasnaa, Kafriya, Hajika, Bleblikah, and other areas in the townships of Raju, Jendires, Shirawa and in the north-western countryside of Aleppo, which caused material damage, without information about casualties.
And the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also learned that the area witnessed displacements of families from Afrin area, in which some of them arrived the area of Nubl and Al-Zahraa linking Afrin with Aleppo city and considered the only outlet linking between them, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published today the 20th of January 2018, that violent and successive explosions rocked Afrin area in the north-western section of Aleppo countryside, controlled by the SDF, and the SOHR learned that the strikes were carried out simultaneously by more than 10 warplanes which targeted areas in Afrin city as well as areas in its countryside, where the raids targeted the townships of Raju, Jendires, Sharra Mabta and Shirawa, which caused material damage, and resulted in the fall of a number of wounded who were carried to receive treatment, and these are the first airstrikes carried out by Turkish warplanes on Afrin area and its city, which come with escalating the Turkish shelling for its 8th consecutive day, while the warplanes are flying over the area amid alertness witnessed in the city and fears for the citizens’ lives in the city, its districts and its countryside.