Illustrative image, fighters of the Afrin Liberation Forces. Via the Hawar News Agency (ANHA).
On October 9, the Afrin Liberation Forces (ALF) announced that its cells had carried out three attacks on the Turkish military and its proxies in the northern countryside of Syria’s Aleppo.
In a statement, the Kurdish guerilla group said that the attacks, which took place in the first week of October, were carried out to “deter” Turkish forces.
The first attack targeted a base of the Turkish military near the town of al-Bab on October 1. During the attack, a military vehicle was destroyed with an anti-tank guided missile. The ALF claimed that five Turkish service members were killed and several others were wounded.
The second and third attacks were carried on October 4 out by ALF snipers, who first killed a Turkish-backed militant and wounded another near the town of Marea then killed a third militant near the town of Serawa.
The ALF emerged early on in 2018 following the occupation of the Kurdish-Syrian area of Afrin by the Turkish military and its proxies. The shadowy group is said to be a proxy of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). In the last few months, the group stepped up its attacks on the Turkish military and its proxies in the northern Aleppo countryside in what appears to be a response to recent Turkish strikes on the SDF.
The Turkish military and its proxies have been hunting down ALF cells in Afrin and other parts of the northern Aleppo countryside with very little success for around four years now.
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