Turkey shells village in Syria’s Hasakah
TEL TAMR, Syria (North Press) – Turkish artillery targeted on Monday midnight a village in north of Hasakah Governorate, northeastern Syria.
A source of Tel Tamr military Council, affiliated with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), told North Press that Turkish forces targeted the inhabitant village of al-Tawila, in the western countryside of Tel Tamr, causing only material damages.
Since the beginning of this week, the villages of Tel Tamr have been subjected to intensive Turkish shelling.
Following the Turkish incursion into northern Syria in October 2019, Turkey signed two ceasefire agreements, one with Russia and the other with the US, stipulating ceasing all hostilities and the withdrawal of the SDF 32 km away from the Turkish border.
Tel Tamr, which has a population of about 25.000 and is 30km 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 Syrian Military Council and the Assyrian Khabour Guards Forces, while the Turkish-backed armed Syrian opposition factions control the northern countryside up to the city of Sere Kaniye (Ras al-Ain) on the northern border of Syria.