Turkish shelling results in casualties in Syria’s Ain Issa
AIN ISSA, Syria (North Press) – A woman was killed and her husband was injured on Saturday due to artillery shelling by the Turkish forces and its affiliated armed opposition factions, aka the Syrian National Army (SNA), on a village in the countryside of Ain Issa, northern Raqqa Governorate, northern Syria.
A source from a hospital in the town of Ain Issa told North Press that Amsha al-Bakari, 65, was killed, and her husband Muhammad al-Ali, 70, was injured as a shell hit their house in the village of al-Khalidiya in the western countryside of Ain Issa.
The source added that al-Ali sustained minor injuries and received treatment and initial medical care at the hospital.
On Oct. 5, the Turkish army launched drone strikes on infrastructure facilities in several areas of north and northeast Syria that is run by the AANES. The strikes took place following a statement by Turkey’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hakan Fidan, in which he threatened to strike a broader range of targets in Syria and Iraq in retaliation for the Ankara attack.
On Oct. 1, two individuals carried out a bomb attack in front of the building of the Ministry of Interior in Turkey’s Ankara injuring two police officers.
On Oct. 4, Fidan claimed that the two attackers had been trained in Syria. “From now on, all infrastructure, large facilities and energy facilities belonging to (armed Kurdish groups) in Iraq and Syria are legitimate targets for our security forces,” he threatened.