After their forces failed to storm it militarily…Turkish warplanes concentrate their bombardment on the vicinity of Maydanki Dam to sink Afrin
The violent and successive explosions have been still shacking Afrin area since 2:00 after the midnight of Sunday – Monday, in which the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored that the Turkish forces started short time ago, intensive artillery shelling on Jendires town an nearby villages, areas and hills, in the western and the south-western countryside of Afrin city, in conjunction with shelling on the far north-east of Afrin in conjunction with clashes in areas in Jendires Township, and the vicinity of Qastal Jendo and Jabal Barsaya between the Turkish forces and the rebel and Islamic factions against the YPG and the Self-Defense forces .
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also monitored that airstrikes have been targeting since after the midnight of Sunday – Monday, places in the vicinity of Maydanki Dam “the 17th Nisan Dam”, which is located about 10 km to the left of Afrin city, amid fears of targeting the Dam and destroying it by the Turkish warplanes which target it for the third time in 10 days of the “Olive Branch” Operation announced by Turkey against Afrin, and the Syrian Observatory also monitored raids targeting Kadah village in Raju Township west of Afrin, the villages of Turmish and Khalila in Sheikh Hadid Township, the villages of Burj Suleiman, Deir Mishmish, Koblah, Burj Hayder and another village in Shirawa Township, and Baqja village in Bulbula Township, amid the continuation of warplanes to fly over Afrin city and its countryside, and the airstrikes caused more damage to the property of the citizens, and information was reported about injuries due to the bombardment.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also monitored artillery and rocket shelling carried out by the Turkish forces and are continuing, on villages and hills on Afrin area, which caused more material damage to the property of the citizens and to the infrastructure, in which it has increased to 55 including 17 children and 10 citizen women, the number of Syrian citizens of the Kurds, Arabs and Armenians who has been killed since the 20th of January 2018, until today morning the 29th of January 2018, in the Turkish aerial, artillery and rocket shelling on Afrin city, the villages of Koblah, Kaljiba and Maryamin, Maabatli town, and other villages and areas in the northern and the western countryside of Afrin, while the Turkish forces backed by the rebel and Islamic factions operating within the “Olive Branch” Operation, managed to achive important advancement and they completed to impose their control over Jabal Barsaya in the north-eastern countryside of Afrin, and this control came after several failed attempts to take the control of this mountain, since the 22nd of January 2018, and the SOHR monitored that this control came after tens of airstrikes carried out by the Turkish warplanes and the attacking helicopters participating in the combat operation in the area of Jabal Barsaya, and the attack, the violent battles and the clashes which took place between the YPG and the Self-Defense forces against the Turkish forces and the rebel and Islamic factions operating within the “Olive Branch” Operation, were accompanied by intensive and violent shelling resulted in the fall of more human losses, in which the Syrian Observatory documented the death of 12 fighters at least of the YPG who were killed in the bombardment and the clashes while 2 others at least were captured and others were injured with varying severity, while confirmed information was reported that members of the forces of the “Olive Branch” Operation were killed in the clashes while others were injured.