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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Turkish forces bombarded villages of Aleppo northern countryside
2021-08-16
[PUBLISH.TWITTER] On Saturday, residents of the countryside of Tel Tamr town, north of Hasakah, northeast Syria, spent the night in terror after the Ottoman Turkish forces escalated the shelling targeting villages in the area with dozens of shells.

"The Ottoman Turkish forces targeted the village of al-Dardara, north of Tel Tamr, yesterday night," a source of the Tel Tamr Military Council told North Press.

"The Ottoman Turkish forces renewed bombing, targeting the villages of Qubur Qarajneh, Sheikh Ali and Maslata, on the frontlines between the towns of Tel Tamr and Abu Rasin," the source added.

From 9:00 pm yesterday to 01:30 am today’s morning, more than 50 mortar and artillery shells fell, in addition to the firing of flares by Ottoman Turkish forces at different times on the villages mentioned above.

The Syriac Military Council, a military formation affiliated with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), deployed on the frontlines in the countryside of Tel Tamr, launched a counter-attack on the sources of fire.

On August 4, the Ottoman Turkish bombing of the countryside of Tel Tamr wounding an elderly woman and two members of the government forces in Umm al-Keif village, north of Tel Tamr.

For more than a month, the countryside of Tel Tamr and its villages have been subjected to frequent Ottoman Turkish attacks, which led to the displacement of residents to safe regions.
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