The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Coalition’s reinforcements continue to reach Manbij and soldiers mostly French and American deploy on the contact lines with “Euphrates Shield” and Turkish Forces

Aleppo Province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights obtained information from several reliable sources that reinforcements continue to reach the Coalition Forces in Manbij area in the northeastern countryside of Aleppo, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that reinforcements of weapons and equipment have arrived to the Coalition Forces, which are continue to be deployed on the contact lines with “Euphrates Shield” Operation Forces and the Turkish forces in the northeastern sector of Aleppo, and the Syrian Observatory learned that the majority of Coalition Forces deployed in the area are of the US and French forces.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published yesterday that SOHR learned that patrols of American and French forces operating within the international coalition forces  are still deployed in Manbij city located in the northeastern countryside of Aleppo, where the news of withdrawal of members of the forces of the international coalition from Manbij.  The forces of Manbij Military Council are still on alert in the city of Manbij and its vicinity. The SOHR published yesterday Friday the 30th of March that Manbij city has been still witnessing alertness by International Coalition forces and the forces of Manbij Military Council since the midnight of Thursday – Friday, in the wake of the explosion which rocked the city, at the midnight of Thursday – Friday, in Manbij area in the north-eastern countryside of Aleppo, caused by explosion targeted soldiers of International Coalition forces in Manbij city controlled by the forces of Manbij Military Council and American forces, and the targeting resulted in the death of 2 members of the International Coalition and the injury of 9 other persons with varying severity, including 4 members of by the forces of Manbij Military Council, while the number of casualties may increase because of the presence of serious injuries.

This targeting comes in the wake of the attempt to assassinate the spokesperson of Manbij Military Council, Sharfan Darwish, which was targeted by a front named as “Ertugrul Resistance Brigade”, and the attempt of assassination was carried out in the evening of the 24th of March 2018, where Sharfan Darwish was injured and taken to receive treatment, while the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published on the 27th of March 2018, that a dead body of a person in a military uniform was found in the western countryside of Al-Raqqah, he is believed to be an intelligence agent of the Syria Democratic Forces, where its body was found dumped on the road in the south of Al-Mansoura town in the western countryside of Al-Raqqah, with a gunshot and he is believed to be subjected to an assassination that targeted him directly, and unidentified gunmen assassinated Omar Alloush, the co-head of Raqqa Civil Council’s Public Relations Committee, was assassinated in his house two weeks ago in Tal Abyad city on the border with Turkey, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published on the 17th of February 2018, that unidentified gunmen assassinated a person, sources said that he belonged to the intelligence services of the Syria Democratic Forces near the Al-Ajrawi roundabout area in Al-Tabaqa city, in the western countryside of Raqqa.