Turkish forces shell village north of Syria’s Hasakah
TEL TAMR, Syria (North Press) – Turkish forces and their affiliated armed opposition factions, known as Syrian National Army (SNA), shelled on Saturday evening a village in the countryside of Tel Tamr, a town in the northern countryside of Hasakah, northeastern Syria.
A source of the Tel Tamr Military Council, affiliated with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), told North Press, “The Turkish forces targeted with heavy artillery the village of Sheikh Ali, north of Tel Tamr.”
The bombardment resulted in material damage to civilian property, but no casualties have been recorded, the source said.
Interestingly, two soldiers of Syrian government forces were wounded on Friday in a Turkish shelling of the same village.
The Turkish forces shelled on Saturday’s morning the villages of al-Gozaliya and Tel al-Laban, west of Tel Tamr, causing material damage.
In addition, the Turkish artillery shelled on Friday the villages of Dardara, Quboor al-Qarajneh and Sheikh Ali, killing two members of the Syriac Military Council of the SDF, and injuring two soldiers of the Syrian government forces.
Tel Tamr and other areas on border strip with Turkey in northeast Syria witnessed military escalation by Turkish forces and their affiliated Syrian opposition factions in the past three weeks.
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.