Turkish forces shell town in Syria’s Hasakah
TEL TAMR, Syria (North Press) – Turkish forces and Turkish-backed armed opposition factions, aka the Syrian National Army (SNA), shelled on Wednesday the countryside of Tel Tamr in the north of Hasakah, northeastern Syria.
A military source told North Press that the Turkish forces and the SNA factions targeted the village of al-Dardara in the northern countryside of Tel Tamr with six artillery shells. So far, no information were reported about human or material losses.
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 Hasakah to Aleppo Governorate in the northwest.
The town has been under constant attacks by the 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 Khabur Guards Forces, while the SNA controls the northern countryside up to the city of Sere Kaniye (Ras al-Ain) on the northern border of Syria.
In the past two days, Turkish forces had targeted with artillery shells the village of Sheikh Ali in the countryside of Tel Tamr, according to the source.