Turkish Army Pounds Kurdish Military Positions in Northern Syria

TEHRAN (defapress)- The Turkish Army attacked the military positions of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in Aleppo and Raqqa near the borders with Turkey.

News ID: 75183

Date: 25 January 2019 - 19:51

Turkey's Army attacked the SDF military positions in the surrounding areas of the village of Quneitra North of the town of Solouk in Northern Raqqa and along the borders with Turkey, battlefield sources in Northern Syria said.

The artillery units of the Turkish Army and its allied forces also heavily pounded the SDF's military positions in the town of Tal Rafat in Northern Aleppo.

Media activists in Hasaka province, meantime, reported that the Turkish Army has dispatched fresh forces and military equipment to the border with Syria adjacent to the town of Qamishli.

In a relevant development on Monday, a number of the Ankara-backed militants were killed and wounded in a military raid by the Kurdish forces in Afrin in Northwestern Aleppo.

The Kurdish fighters during their military operations against the Turkish Army and its affiliated militants in Afrin region pounded the Turkey-backed militants' positions and movements in the village of Khaleteh in Afrin region in Northwestern Aleppo, killing at least eight militants of Sultan Murat and Jbahat al-Shamia as well as wounding three others, the Kurdish media Hawar News reported.

It noted that the Kurdish fighters' raid on the military positions of Farqa al-Hamza in the village of Kimar in Shirawa region killed four terrorists, including a terrorist commander and wounded three others.

The Kurdish militants also exploded a bomb in the command center of Faylaq al-Rahman terrorist group and the military police affiliated to Ankara in Marimin village in Shara region, killing four terrorists and wounding two others.

Several other Ankara-backed terrorists were also killed and wounded during the Kurdish fighters' military operations in Shara region.

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