SDF launches security operation in Syria’s northeast
QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) – The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) Media Center announced, on Sunday, that they had carried out a special security operation in the town of Tel Brak, 42 km from Hasakah, northeast Syria, targeting a cell working for Turkish intelligence.
On July 31, the SDF launched the “Operation Oath” to pursue agents and spies of networks affiliated with the Turkish intelligence and arrest their members.
The SDF Media center stated that the cell, “consisting of three individuals, affiliated with the Turkish intelligence MIT, were hiding in a hotbed in Abu Arzala neighborhood, Tel Brak.”
“During the raid operation, one of the cell members, called Aziz Muhammad al-Muhammad, refused the call for safe surrender, and he resisted our forces which led to his death,” according to the SDF Media Center.
The two other individuals (Mahmoud Muhammad al-Muhammad and Ali Muhammad al-Muhammad) were arrested.
“The cell is involved in espionage acts about the AANES employees, military headquarters, and military sites and tunnels. The cell has caused the martyrdom of many of our comrades and fighter,” the center added.
The operation has been launched in response to recent Turkish drone attacks on areas in northeastern Syria, which targeted a number of prominent SDF leaders.
In a statement published on August 10, the SDF said that two of their fighters and one civilian lost their lives in a Turkish drone attack on a car near a village southwest of the city of Qamishli.
On August 9, four members of the Self-Defense Forces (compulsory recruitment), affiliated with the SDF, lost their lives and three others were wounded in a Turkish drone assault.
On July 22, Salwa Youssef, commander in the Counter-Terrorism Units (YAT), Jwana Hisso, leader in the Women’s Protection Units (YPJ) and YAT fighter Ruha Bashar, lost their lives in a Turkish drone attack in the eastern countryside of Qamishli.