New armed fight | Popular resentment grows over the daily rivalry among Turkish-backed fighters in Aleppo

Aleppo Province – Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: SOHR activists have monitored new clashes in Ikhtarin area in the northern countryside of Aleppo, between two families. Factions of the “National Army” have intervened to defuse the dispute between the two sides, while the reason behind the fight, which caused material damage to civilians’ properties, remained unknown.

 

The daily infighting in the in areas under the control of Turkish forces and their Syrian proxies has ignited widespread resentment among people there.

 

SOHR sources reported earlier this morning that the gunmen of Tal Refaat and “Al-Jabha Al-Shamiyyah” reached an agreement in Saju town in northern Aleppo at Syria-Turkey border.

 

The agreement stipulated for the withdrawal of the people of Tal Refaat from Saju town and remove all armed presence. This agreement came after bloody fight with heavy weapons and rockets, which lasted for nearly seven hours, between gunmen displaced from Tal Refaat and gunmen form Saju.

 

The fight left four fatalities (three people from Tal Refaat, including a child, and a fighter of “Al-Jabha Al-Shamiyyah” from Saju), while ten others, including civilians, sustained injuries.

 

The fight followed altercation between a young man from Tal Refaat and members of a checkpoint affiliated to “Al-Jabha Al-Shamiyyah” led to the killing of a child from Tal Refaat by the checkpoint’s members. It is worth noting that “Al-Mu’tasim Division” and “Jaysh Al-Sharqiyyah” intervened last night as disengagement forces.