More Turkey-Backed Militants Killed in Clashes with Kurds in Northern Syria

TEHRAN (defapress)- Several Ankara-backed militants were killed in the Kurdish militia attacks in occupied Afrin region in Northwestern Aleppo, a Kurdish-language news agency reported on Monday.

News ID: 72312

Date: 10 September 2018 - 15:57

Hawar news reported that the Kurdish fighters attacked a military vehicle of the Ankara forces on a road to the village of Satirak in Afrin, destroying the vehicle and killing two militants.

In the meantime, two more Ankara-backed gunmen were killed in an ambush operation by the Kurds on a road to Rajou and Shara regions in Afrin.

Local sources, meanwhile, said that terrorists of Firqa al-Hamza and Ahrar al-Sham brock into the residential units in the village of Karzileh, looting people's assets and arresting sixty villagers, including women.

Hawar news reported earlier today that Battalions of Sultan Murad and Firqa al-Hamza engaged in a fresh round of clashes with rival terrorists of Ahrar al-Sharqiyah and Aswad al-Sharqiyah in the villages of Hiyami, Ali Karo and Za'ara in Bolbol region in Afrin in Northwestern Aleppo, leaving at least 13 terrorists dead and several more wounded.

It further said that the infighting came after differences erupted among rival groups over running a border-crossing used by terrorists to traffic narcotics to Turkey with Turkish army's coordination.

Hawar news went on to say that a Turkish army convoy was sent to the region to end several hours of infighting among terrorists.

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