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Syrian Army responds to Turkish military attack in northern Aleppo
2018-12-14
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) issued a powerful response to the Ottoman Turkish military’s attack on their positions this afternoon, a source in Aleppo city told al-Masdar News.

According to the source, the Syrian Arab Army fired several artillery shells towards the Ottoman Turkish military’s positions in the Afrin region of northwest Aleppo after the latter fired several projectiles at their posts near the town of Tal Rifa’at.

The source said that some Syrian soldiers were maimed as a result of the Ottoman Turkish military strikes; however, they were minor injuries.

He would add that the Syrian Army fired the artillery shells towards the small town of Jaleel, which is controlled by the Ottoman Turkish military.

The response was meant to deter the Ottoman Turkish military from launching anymore strikes on their positions in northern Aleppo.

Turkish soldier killed north of Aleppo, Syria

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’s Defence Ministry announced one of their soldiers was killed in an attack on their forces north of Syria’s Aleppo on Thursday.

The ministry accused Kurdish forces of the People’s Protection Units (YPG) of opening fire on their soldiers from Tall Rifat city, state-run Anadolu Agency reported.

The Ottoman Turkish military responded to the attack, according to the ministry’s statement.

The YPG has not immediately commented on the incident. The force regularly carries out attacks on Syrian forces allied with Turkey in Afrin, the Kurdish enclave that the Ottoman Turkish army took control of after a military offensive at the start of the year.

Media close to the Damascus regime, however, reported an altercation between the Syrian Arab Army and Ottoman Turkish forces in the Tall Rifat area.

Ottoman Turkish forces opened fire on Syrian posts near Tal Rifat and the Syrian army responded, reported al-Masdar News, citing an unnamed source in Aleppo. Some Syrian soldiers were lightly maimed in the altercation. The report did not give any details of casualties among the Ottoman Turkish ranks.

Nearly 2,000 Syrian militias loyal to Turkey have been deployed from the Aleppo countryside and Afrin to the river area, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

Sources told the UK-based conflict monitor that the preparations for an offensive are complete and Syrian militias are just waiting for their orders to come from Turkey.

The operation "will extend from Euphrates until the Iraqi border," the Observatory reported.
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