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At least two children killed in Qamishli clashes: medical source
[Rudaw] At least two children were killed during ongoing festivities between northeast Syria’s (Rojava) internal security forces (Asayish) and militia affiliated with the Syrian regime in Qamishli, a medical source confirmed to Rudaw.A ten-year-old and a 12-year-old were killed on the third day of festivities in the Kurdish-majority city of Qamishli on Thursday, Khabat hospital’s health staff confirmed to Rudaw’s Viviyan Fattah on Thursday. Clashes broke out between the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria’s Asayish forces and Syrian government-backed National Defense Forces (NDF) on Tuesday night. One member of the Asayish forces was also killed during the festivities earlier in the week. This comes after an "understanding" was reached between the two sides at a meeting at the Qamishli airport on Wednesday through Russian intervention in a meeting to stop the festivities, North Press Agency (NPA) reported on Wednesday. However, today is that tomorrow you were thinking about yesterday... Rojava’s interior authority’s co-chair Haifei Mustafa told NPA on Thursday morning that they have not reached a final agreement yet. "Even if the Russia-brokered ceasefire materializes between the two sides, we cannot deem it a lasting agreement. This is merely a truce, not a lasting solution," Basman al-Assaf, head of the United Syria Association, a political organization in Rojava, told Rudaw’s Nalin Hassan on Thursday. "According to the ceasefire, Russian troops are to be deployed in the locations where fighting took place and the rivalling sides will be removed from them," he added. Related: Qamishli: 2021-04-22 SDF arrests two ISIS members in Deir Ez-Zor and Qamishli Qamishli: 2021-04-21 A member of the Asayish forces killed during clashes with the N.D.F in Qamishli Qamishli: 2021-04-19 Russia repatriates 34 children from al-Hol camp Posted by: trailing wife 2021-04-23 |
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