Ankara-Backed Terrorists Resume Attacks on Kurds' Military Positions in Northern Syria

TEHRAN (defapress)- The Turkey-backed militants resumed attacks on the Kurdish fighters in the city of al-Bab in Northwestern Aleppo after Ankara threatened to launch military operations in Eastern Euphrates.

News ID: 76170

Date: 13 March 2019 - 16:56

The militants backed by the Turkish Army pounded the military positions of Kurdish Al-Bab Military Council in the village of al-Bouqaz to the East of Al-Bab city, the Kurdish-language Hawar News reported. The Ankara-backed militants pounded the Kurdish military positions from the village of Ouleshli in Northeastern Aleppo.

The Turkey-backed forces also hit the Kurds' positions in the town of al-Bavihij West of al-Arimeh in Eastern al-Bab which resulted in fierce clashes between the two sides.

This is while the Turkish Defense Ministry in a statement announced that preparations are still underway to launch major military operations against the Kurds in Eastern Euphrates in Northern Syria.

In a relevant development on Friday, several Turkey-backed militants were killed and injured and three of their bases were destroyed in the Kurdish military operations against them in Afrin region in Northwestern Aleppo.

"The Kurdish fighters launched fresh military operations against the Turkish Army and their allied militants in Baseleh town in Shirava region, killing a Turkish soldier and wounding two others as well as destroying their military vehicle," Hawar News reported.

It also noted that the Kurdish forces pounded the military positions of Ankara-backed Jbahat al-Shamia terrorist group in the village of Mariman in Shara region which resulted in the death and injury of six militants.

Meantime, field sources in Afrin also pointed to a bomb explosion in front of Sultan Murat terrorist group headquarters in the center of Afrin City which killed and injured a number of militants. They pointed to the Kurdish fighters as possible perpetrators of the bomb explosion in Afrin City.

In a relevant development last Thursday, a large number of civilians in al-Bab region in Northwestern Aleppo held protest rallies against the Turkish army and affiliated militants, calling for their withdrawal.

Hawar news reported that hundreds of residents of al-Bab, angry with the Ankara-backed militants' measures, including murder, execution and abduction of civilians and plundering their properties, poured to the streets, stressing the need for the Turkish army and militants to leave the region.

They also voiced protest at the activities of Turkish truck drivers in the region, saying that they don't let their Syrian counterparts work.

Relevant reports from Northwestern Aleppo said last month that the Turkish army and terrorists supported by Ankara continued forceful seizure of people's properties in, media sources said, adding that differences had increased among the militants in Turkish-occupied areas.

Hawar news quoted local sources in Afrin as saying that the Ankara-backed militants had cut nearly 1,050 fruit trees belonging to the civilians in the village of Qorneh Foqani in Bolboleh region.

They also added that the terrorists had cut the old trees near Meidanaki Lake in Shara region.

The sources said that the terrorists in Afrin region and other occupied areas in Northern Aleppo had also engaged in severe differences and several of them in Afrin, al-Bab and, specially Jarabulus, have defected their groups and joined other groups affiliated to the Turkish army.

The terrorist groups and the countries which support them have in the past few years plundered Syria's resources and treasures.

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