High Tensions Reported between Kurds, Ankara-Backed Militants in Aleppo

The Kurdish-language Hawar News reported on Wednesday afternoon that heavy clashes had erupted between the so-called 'al-Bab Military Council' militants and terrorists affiliated to the Turkish army in the villages near the town of al-Arimeh in the Eastern part of the town of al-Bab in Northeastern Aleppo.

It added that the Ankara-backed terrorists had targeted the Kurds' positions in the villages of Tal Turin and al-Bawihaj from the village of al-Kuridiyeh.

According to Hawar News, at least 3 Ankara-supported militants were killed during the operations by the so-called 'Afrin Liberation' forces against the Ankara-supported militants in the town of Mar'e in Northern Aleppo.

In a relevant development last Sunday, the Turkish army had also fiercely attacked the Kurdish fighters' positions in Northern Aleppo after a number of its soldiers were killed in Afrin.

Sources affiliated to militants reported that a Turkish soldier was killed and another was wounded in the Kurds' military attack against one of their military bases near the town of Mar'e in Northwestern Aleppo.

Meantime, Hawar News quoted sources in Afrin as saying that 3 Turkish soldiers were killed and 3 others were wounded in an operation against the Turkish army in the village of Marimiyeh in Shara region in Afrin in Northwestern Aleppo.

Also, the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported that the Turkish forces have targeted regions occupied by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the villages of Zourmaqar in the Eastern parts of Jarabulus in Northeastern Aleppo with heavy attacks.

It added that the Turkish army also pounded with artillery fire the villages of Tatamanrash and Shawareqah as well as areas near Marimin in Sharan region in Afrin.

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