Turkey shells 6 villages in NE Syria’s Hasakah
TEL TAMR, Syria (North Press) – On Saturday, Turkish artillery targeted six villages in the countryside of Hasakah Governorate, northeastern Syria, following two-day calmness.
Turkish forces shelled six villages in the countryside of the town of Tel Tamr, north of Hasakah, injuring a civilian.
The town of Tel Tamr in north of Hasakah, northeast Syria, has been under constant attack by Turkish military and its affiliated armed opposition factions, known as Syrian National Army (SNA), for more than two years.
A source of Tel Tamr Military Council, affiliated with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), said that the villages shelled were al-Abboush, al-Geibish, al-Tawila, Umm al-Keif, al-Gozaliya and Tel al-Laban.
The shelling damaged the civilians’ property and houses.
The shelling came after a week of intense shelling by the Turkish forces and their affiliated SNA, of the area, which resulted in the killing of two soldiers of Syrian government forces and the injury of ten others.
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.
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 SNA control the northern countryside up to the city of Sere Kaniye (Ras al-Ain) on the northern border of Syria.