Turkish forces target Syria’s Tel Tamr with mortar shells
HASAKAH, Syria (North Press) – Turkish forces and their affiliated armed opposition factions, aka Syrian National Army (SNA), targeted on Thursday the village of Sheikh Ali, in the town of Tel Tamr, north of Hasakah Governorate, northeast Syria.
A local source told North Press that the Turkish forces and the SNA factions targeted the aforementioned village with two mortar shells.
No casualties or material damage were recorded.
Tel Tamr, which has a population of about 25,000 and is 30 km away from the Syrian-Turkish border, is of strategic importance as it is a junction on the M4 Highway linking Hasakah to Aleppo governorate in the northwest.
The town has been under constant attacks by Turkish forces and the SNA for more than two years.
Parts of the northern and western countryside of the town and the entire southern countryside are protected by the Syriac Military Council and the Assyrian Khabour Guards Forces, while the SNA controls the northern countryside up to the city of Sere Kaniye (Ras al-Ain) on the northern border of Syria.
On July 31, three people were injured in a Turkish shelling on the village of Tel al-Laban, southwest Tel Tamr.