Turkey targets areas of Syria’s Aleppo with mortar, artillery shells
ALEPPO, Syria (North Press) – Turkish forces and their affiliated armed opposition factions, aka Syrian National Army (SNA), shelled several areas and villages in the northern countryside of Aleppo Governorate, northern Syria, with mortar and artillery shells.
An exclusive source told North Press that the Turkish artillery located in Scientific Research Center on Yahmoul-Azaz way shelled the villages of Malkiyah and Shwargha, in the northern countryside of Aleppo, with more than 100 shells.
The SNA factions shelled the villages of Maraanaz and al-Alqamiyah, in Shahba Region, in the northern countryside of Aleppo, with more than 50 mortar shells, the source added.
The northern countryside of Aleppo, also known as Shahba Region, houses IDPs of the Kurdish region of Afrin, northwest Syria, which was occupied by Turkey in 2018.
The Turkish operation caused the displacement of about 300.000 original Kurdish inhabitants of Afrin, who sheltered in some 40 villages and five camps in the Shahba Region.
Areas of north and east Syria witness Turkish shelling and missile attacks from time to time, in addition to threats to launch military operations against the region, terrifying residents and causing a state of instability.