Turkish Army, Kurdish Forces Resume Fierce Clashes in Aleppo

The Turkish Army and its allied militants attacked the military positions of Kurdish fighters in Northern Aleppo which resulted in fierce clashes between the two sides over the past 24 hours.

News ID: 445293

Date: 08 June 2019 - 10:21

RNA - "The Turkish Army and the allied militants stationed in the city of Jarablus in Northern Aleppo attacked the Kurdish militants' military positions in the village of al-Awasi near the town of Lower Shoyoukh, West of Kobani (Ain al-Arab) city," the Kurdish-language Hawar News reported.

Meantime, the Syrian army continued its military advances in other parts of Syria over past 24 hours.

Tens of terrorists were killed and dozens more were injured during the Syrian army's operations in provinces across Syria.

Aleppo

The Turkish Army and its allied militants attacked the military positions of Kurdish fighters in Northern Aleppo which resulted in fierce clashes between the two sides, media reports said Thursday.

The Kurdish-language Hawar News reported that the Turkish Army and the allied militants stationed in the city of Jarablus in Northern Aleppo attacked the Kurdish militants' military positions in the village of al-Awasi near the town of Lower Shoyoukh, West of Kobani city.

Meantime, the pro-militant London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) also reported that the Turkish Army launched missile attacks on several regions of Kurdish-controlled Tal Maziq town in Northern Aleppo.

The Xeber24 news website also pointed to the attacks by the Ankara-backed militants on Kurdish Afrin Liberation Forces in Ma'arnaz region in Northern Aleppo, and said fierce clashes are currently underway in Ma'arnaz region.

It also said the Kurdish forces pounded and destroyed a vehicle of the Ankara-backed National Army in Jandaris region of Afrin in Northwestern Aleppo.

Meantime, the people of al-Bab region in Northern Aleppo held massive protest rallies against the occupying Turkish Army and called for their expulsion from the Syrian territories after the Turkish Army enhanced its aggressive moves in the region, Kurdish-language media outlets reported.

The Hawar news reported that a large number of residents of Jalab al-Sheikh Aqil in Al-Bab city staged massive protests, calling for immediate exit of the Turkish Army and its allied militants from those regions.

It noted that the popular uprising by residents of Jabal al-Sheikh Aqil against the occupying Turkish Army took place after hundreds of families were driven out of the region to build a Turkish military base there.

In Turkish and Arabic-language slogans, the protesters reiterated that they will not obey the Turkish Army.

Meantime, the occupying Turkish forces also tried to arrest the civilians in reaction to people's protests, but faced people's resistance.

Hama-Idlib

The Syrian and Russian armies have sent new military convoys to the battlefronts in Northern Hama concurrent with the government forces' intensified attacks on terrorists' military positions and convoys in Northern Hama and Southern Idlib.

The Syrian Army's artillery and missile units heavily pounded the military positions and movements of Jeish al-Izzeh and Tahrir al-Sham al-Hay'at (the Levant Liberation Board or the Al-Nusra Front) in the towns of al-Zaqum, Qoleidin and al-Zuka in Northern Hama, destroying several of their military positions and hideouts in the region.

The Syrian Army's artillery and missile units also pounded the lines movements, roads and military convoys of the terrorists in Tarmala and al-Naqir in Southern Idlib, destroying terrorists' military convoy comprising at least 10 military and armored vehicles moving from Khan Sheikhoun in Southern Idlib towards the town of Hasraya in Northern Hama.

Battlefield sources also said that the Syrian Army has dispatched hundreds of fresh forces and military equipment to the surrounding areas of the village of al-Hardanieh in Northern Hama in Jabal Shahshabou region to reinforce its military positions there.

Meantime, the Arabic-language al-Modon news website affiliated to the militants reported that the Russian Army has dispatched troops and military equipment from Bridij Base near the city of al-Saqilbieh in Northern Hama to Tal Hawash region and other battlefronts with the terrorist groups after the recent strategic advances by the Syrian Army in Northern Hama and Southern Idlib.

According to Fars News Agancy, the terrorist groups stationed in Northern Hama and Southern Idlib also launched rocket attacks on residential areas of the city of Mahradeh and the town of Qamhaneh in Northern and Northwestern Hama.

Deir Ezzur

The Syrian Army continued its mop-up operations in Eastern Deir Ezzur, and found a depot of arms and ammunition, including western weapons, left behind by the ISIL terrorists.

The Syrian Army's engineering units kept on their clean-up operations in Eastern Deir Ezzur, and discovered an underground ammunition and weapons cache of the ISIL in the town of Lower Baqres in the outskirts of al-Mayadeen region.

The Syrian Army troops found large amount of weapons and military equipment, including different kinds of combat rifles, machineguns, canons, mortars, bombs, rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) and some western weapons.

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