Turkey intensifies shelling of NE Syria’s Tel Tamr
TEL TAMR, Syria (North Press) – A source of Tel Tamr Military Council, a military formation affiliated with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) told north Press that the Turkish artillery shelled a village in Tel Tamr countryside north of Hasakah Governorate in northeast Syria
The source said the shelling comes three hours following the shelling of the villages of al-Gozaliya and Tel al-Laban in the countryside of Tel Tamr.
The source added that the shelling affected the village of Quboor al-Qarajneh causing material damages only.
Through the past three weeks, residents of Tel Tamr have been living in a state of concern after residents who live on contact lines in northern and western countryside of the town were displaced and headed south towards neighboring camps and safe villages.
The town of Tel Tamr has been under constant attack by Turkish military and its affiliated armed opposition factions, known as Syrian National Army (SNA), for more than two years.
Many areas in northeast Syria witnessed on Monday Turkish artillery and mortar shells targeting them.
Tel Tamr, which has a population of about 25.000 and is 30km away from the Syrian-Turkish border, is of strategic importance as it is a junction on the M4 Highway linking the Jazira region in northeast Syria to Aleppo governorate in northwest.
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 Turkish-backed SNA control the northern countryside up to the city of Sere Kaniye (Ras al-Ain) on the northern border of Syria.