Turkish forces injure civilian on M4 highway, Syria

NORTHEASTERN SYRIA (North Press) – A civilian was injured on Wednesday after Turkish forces and Turkish-backed opposition groups shot a car that was travelling on the M4 highway, which connects Kobani's countryside to Tel Abyad's countryside.

Local sources told North Press that Turkish forces and their affiliated armed opposition groups shot Ahmad Ali's car as he drove from Ain Issa towards Kobani, where he was wounded and transferred to a hospital in Kobani.

On July 5, Turkish forces artillery shelled a road in Hoshan village in the south of Ain Issa city on M4 Highway, injuring a driver.

Turkey and its affiliated armed opposition groups heavily shell villages surrounding Ain Issa, Tel Abyad, and Tel Tamr repeatedly, in disregard of a UN initiative calling for a humanitarian truce to pay attention to efforts to confront the risks of the spread of the emerging coronavirus.

Turkish forces and Turkish-backed armed opposition groups took control of the cities of Sere Kaniye and Tel Abyad and the surrounding countryside in October of 2019. Since this time, residents in the region have reported many human rights abuses, including theft, looting, assault, kidnapping and murder.