Turkish forces expand shelling Syria’s Hasakah
HASAKAH, Syria (North Press) – Turkish forces and their affiliated armed opposition factions, also known as Syrian National Army (SNA), expanded on Friday shelling the countryside of Hasakah Governorate in northeast Syria.
The shelling focused on the villages in the vicinity of the town of Abu Rasin (Zirgan), north of Hasakah.
A military source of Tel Tamr Military Council, affiliated with Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), told North Press that the Turkish forces fired dozens of shells at the vicinity of al-Boby village, north of Zirgan.
The shelling coincided with a similar one that targeted the vicinity of the village of Dada Abdal in the same area. No damages have been reported so far.
The Turkish shelling targeted on Friday morning the vicinity of Umm al-Kheir in the western countryside of Tel Tamr. Hours later, a similar shelling targeted the vicinity of al-Sheikh Ali village in the northern countryside of Tel Tamr.
Since the beginning of September, dozens of villages in the northern countryside of Hasakah have been shelled by the Turkish forces and their affiliated SNA.
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.
The town has been under constant attack by 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 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.