[REGNUM] Six children and three adults were injured in a terrorist attack in the city of Tell Rifaat (Aleppo, Syria), Yevgeny Gerasimov , deputy head of the Russian Center for the Reconciliation of Warring Parties, told reporters on August 4.
He said that the attack was carried out with the help of a drone: the blow was delivered "on a busy market."
In addition, in another Syrian province - Idlib - three soldiers of government troops were injured. This happened as a result of artillery shelling by terrorists of the area of ​​​​the settlement of Ed-Dana.
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Hawar News Agency (ANHA), a media outlet affiliated to Kurdish administration in northeast Syria, reported that seven civilians, including five children aged between 6-15, were killed in a
The condition of one of the injured is serious, according to ANHA.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) also reported the "
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...has renewed threats to launch a fresh military operation against Kurdish fighters in northern Syria in recent months, with
those who apply themselves too closely to little things often become incapable of great things...
the international community has warned against such an offensive, saying it will further escalate tensions in the war-torn country.
Tal Rifaat is located in Aleppo province. Along with Manbij city, it has been the focal point of Turkey's fresh threats. It is a small pocket of territory with
Turkey accuses Kurdish forces of using the Tal Rifaat area to attack its forces.
Ankara claims that the YPG is the Syrian offshoot of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), an gang struggling for increased rights of Kurds in Turkey. Turkey has labeled both terrorist organizations.