Turkish forces shell center of Tel Tamr town in NE Syria
TEL TAMR, Syria (North Press) – Turkish forces and Turkish-backed armed opposition factions, also known as Syrian National Army (SNA), shelled on Thursday evening a neighborhood in the town of Tel Tamr, north of Hasakah Governorate in northeast Syria.
This is the first time the Turkish forces target the center of Tel Tamr since their control over the countryside of the town in 2019.
North Press correspondent cited a source of Tel Tamr Military Council, affiliated with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), as saying; the Turkish forces fired several shells at al-Hamra neighborhood close to the Russian military base.
This coincided with Turkish shelling of Umm al-Keif village, north of the town.
The shelling caused material damage and a state of fear among the residents, according to the military source.
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 the Jazira region in northeast Syria to Aleppo governorate in northwest.
The town has been under constant attack by Turkish forces and their SNA factions 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 Turkish-backed armed Syrian opposition factions control the northern countryside up to the city of Sere Kaniye (Ras al-Ain) on the northern border of Syria.