The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

In the first targeting of its kind, a bombing target a vehicle of the Turkish convoy stationed in the western countryside of Aleppo awaiting to move to areas adjacent to the regime-held areas south of the province

A violent explosion target the outskirts of Al-Atareb town in the western countryside of Aleppo city, caused by targeting a vehicle of Turkish military convoy stopped in the area, where it was waiting to move towards Al-Ais area in the southern countryside of Aleppo, where the bombing targeted a heavy machines carrier, which caused the destruction of the vehicle, and there is information about the bombing resulted in the death of the Turkish bus driver and the injury of another person.

The SOHR published hours ago the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned from reliable sources, that the Turkish military column which entered Aleppo countryside yesterday Monday the 29th of January 2018, moved from the area where it stopped between Al-Tawameh and Kafr Karmin and near the area of Kafr Halab in the western countryside of Aleppo, heading towards Al-Eis area on the contact line with the held areas of the regime forces backed by armed militiamen loyal to them of Syrian, Arab and Asian nationalities in the southern section of Aleppo countryside, where the Turkish forces intend to establish positions in the southern countryside of Aleppo, like those points and bases they established in the north-eastern countryside of Aleppo, the western countryside of Aleppo and the outskirts of Afrin, amid tensions prevailing the area and anticipations to the situation’s development and whether the regime forces and gunmen loyal to them will target the route of the column again, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published last night that the pro-regime gunmen of Arab and Asian nationalities targeted the route of the Turkish column that entered the Syrian territory and headed towards the southern countryside of Aleppo, where this column which entered on the 29th of January 2018 is one of the largest columns, and the sources said that this column was heading towards al-Eis area to hold its control in the area and to establish position points there, and the ground shelling on the rout of the column and on the vicinity of the area of its presence led to the retreat of the Turkish military vehicles and their accompanying forces to al-Qanater area in the western countryside of Aleppo.