Turkey resumes shelling following calmness in Syria’s Hasakah
TEL TAMR, Syria (North Press) – Turkish forces and Turkish-backed armed opposition factions, known as Syrian National Army (SNA), shelled on Monday night a village in the countryside of the town of Tel Tamr, north of Hasakah in northeastern Syria.
The shelling came after 24 hours of calmness in the contact lines north of Hasakah.
On September 18, the Turkish forces heavily shelled several villages and towns on the border in north and northeast Syria.
A military source of Tel Tamr told North Press that Turkish shelling of Umm al-Keif, 2 km north of the town, caused material damage to the residents’ properties.
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 the 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.