In day Turkey targets Assyrian village in Syria’s Hasakah twice
TEL TAMR, Syria (North Press) – On Tuesday, Turkish forces and their affiliated armed Syrian opposition factions, also known as Syrian National Army (SNA), targeted with dozens shells an Assyrian village north of Hasakah, northeast Syria.
Tel Tamr Military Council, affiliated with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), told North Press, “The Turkish forces targeted the village of Tel Tawila west of the town of Tel Tamr with scours of artillery shells.”
The shelling left material losses, according to the source.
On Monday midnight, the same village underwent similar shelling, resulting in material losses.
Since early this week, Tel Tamr countryside has been successively shelled by the Turkish forces, leaving massive material losses in residents’ possessions.
Following the Turkish incursion into northern Syria in October 2019, Turkey signed two ceasefire agreements, one with Russia and the other with the US, stipulating ceasing all hostilities and the withdrawal of the SDF 32 km away from the Turkish border.
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.