QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) – On the fourth day of the Turkish aerial operation against the area, more than 33 air raids and artillery shelling targeted more than 34 sites in north and northeast Syria.
The targeting largely focused on oil fields in the eastern countryside of the city of Qamishli.
Since November 20, the Turkish forces have been carrying out a wide-scale aerial operation against north and northeast Syria, leaving tens of deaths and causing wide-range destruction in facilities and infrastructures.
Late on Wednesday night, three simultaneous air raids were carried out the vicinity of an oil field close to the village of al-Oda.
15 minutes later, two raids targeted Dijla oil field in the south of Chel Agha (al-Jawadiya) town, east of Qamishli, followed by two simultaneous raids against the gas facility in al-Suwaydiya in the same area.
A couple of hours later, a Turkish drone struck an oil field in Tel Khatoun in Terbe Spi while a similar act hit an oil field in Gre Pire in the countryside of Tirbe Spi.
On the very same day, the Turkish warplanes raided the joint Russian-SDF military base known as al-Mabaqer station located in the town of Tel Tamr in which an SDF fighter lost his life and three others injured.
Coincidently, Turkish fighter jets carried out four simultaneous air raids on the village of Ali Agha, east of Qamishli, in addition to the outskirts of the Jerkin prison in western Qamishli which houses tens of ISIS inmates. A warplane also hit twice the village of Tel Fares, west of Qamishli.
War planes struck with four raids the village of Aleksay in Tel Kocher (al-Yaroubiya) countryside.
A Turkish aircraft targeted al-Masraf Road close to the M4 in Tirbe Spi (al-Qahtaniyah) that led to the injury of Abdurrahman al-Ahmad, 22, and Ibrahim al-Muhammad, 43, both civilians, a source told North Press.
A barrage of mortar and artillery shells fell on fields and the village of Tel Hamdoun in the countryside of Amuda, west of Qamishli, and the two villages of Tel Ziwan and Segirka in the east of Qamishli.
Two other civilians were injured in a Turkish shelling on the village of Zaidiya in the countryside of Zirgan (Abu Rasin) town in the north of Hasakah.
In the evening, a Turkish drone hit a checkpoint held by Internal Security Forces of North and East Syria (Asayish) in the town of Zirgan. An Asayish member lost his life and three others injured.
Few minutes later, a Turkish drone dropped two bombs on Covid-19 Hospital in the city of Qamishli. At nearly ten o’clock before mid-night, a truck was struck by a Turkish drone in the Gharbi neighborhood on the city, injuring two persons.
In the same relation, a Turkish drone targeted a military academy of the Sutoro forces, Syriac security forces affiliated with the Asayish, near the village of Rotan in Terbe Spi coincided with a similar act against an oil field at the entrance of Terbe Spi.
Three air raids targeted by Turkish warplanes the vicinity of Hawl Camp as a the result of which a number of ISIS families could escape before being caught up by Asayish members.
Also, Two air raids hit the village of Qararishk in the south of Kobani, northern Syria.
Eastern countryside of Kobani was intensively shelled; a school and three houses were destroyed and a wide-scale displacement was caused.
A soldier of the Syrian government forces was killed in a Turkish shelling against a military post in the vicinity of the village of Mazraat Daoud in Kobani.
Additionally, several other posts of the governmentforces in Kobani countryside were targeted by the Turkish artillery and mortar shelling.
In the evening, the village of al-Sayyada in the northern countryside of Manbij, northern Syria, was shelled by Turkish forces and affiliated opposition factions of the Syrian National Army (SNA) positioned at the Sheikh Nasser base.
A day prior, 43 villages were shelled by Turkish forces within just 24 hours.