3 SNA militants wounded in intra-factional clashes in Syria’s Afrin
AFRIN ,Syria (North Press) – Three militants of the Sham Legion, a faction of the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army (SNA), were wounded on Saturday in a village in the countryside of Afrin, north of Aleppo in northwest Syria.
This came in intra-factional clashes against a group of the SNA’s Sultan Suleiman Shah Division (al-Amshat) at a checkpoint of the Legion at the village of Jalamah in Jindires district, southeast of Afrin city.
An exclusive source told North Press, “A group of al-Amshat Division opened fire at the Third Legion’s checkpoint, wounding three militants of the latter. As a result, all three were taken to a hospitals in Turkey.”
The source added that the clashes took place when al-Amshat attacked the checkpoint under the pretext that the legion had arrested militants of the division.
After carrying out the raid, the source said, the group fled away, but the legion managed to arrest one of them.
Afrin, a Kurdish city in the north of Aleppo, has been under the occupation of Turkey since March 2018 following a military operation called “Olive Branch” which resulted in the displacement of about 300.000 people of the original inhabitants of the city and its countryside.