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Four Syrian Army Service Members, SDF Fighters Killed In Unusual Al-Hasakah Clashes

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Four Syrian Army Service Members, SDF Fighters Killed In Unusual Al-Hasakah Clashes

Click to see full-size image. Source: the Hawar News Agency.

On March 1, unusual clashes broke out between Syrian Arab Army (SAA) service members and a unit of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) near the town of Tell Tamer in the northern al-Hasakah countryside.

An official of the SAA told the Syrian Arab News Agency that the service members, who were manning a post in the outskirts of the village of Ghuzlia, were attacked by SDF fighters after intercepting a convoy of the US-led coalition.

“SDF militiamen attacked the said post with machine guns and mortar shells,” the state-run news agency quoted the unnamed official as saying.

From its side, the SDF’s Tell Tamer Military Council claimed that its fighters responded to a “provocative attack” by the SAA in the outskirts of Ghuzlia.

The clashes, which ended within a few hours, claimed the lives of two service members of the SAA, including an officer, and two SDF fighters.

The SAA and the Russian Military Police established a network of posts in Tell Tamer and its surroundings in October of 2019 to reinforce an agreed upon ceasefire between the SDF and Turkish forces, who were conducting a large-scale military operation in northeastern Syria back then.

For the last few months, the SAA and local pro-government supporters have been intercepting US-led coalition convoys near Tell Tamer. This may have been what motivated the SDF’s attack on the SAA’s Ghuzlia post.

There have been much tensions between the SDF and government forces in al-Hasakah. Less than a week ago, the US-backed group occupied a building of the Damascus government in the town of al-Qamishli, to the north of Tell Tamer. Despite these tensions, the chances of any confrontation between the two remain slim.

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Maju

Calling the NSF a “US coalition” is preposterous! They were an independent force long before Obama switched sides in 2016 and you know it. :(

OneWhoKnows

SDF/YPG/PYD are CIA/Mossad/NATO nations Special Forces creations armed, paid, trained and directed by them to balkanize Syria for Israeli Zionist bankers regional ambitions!

jens holm

Nato is not even in Syria.

What was it it. Dis You see it from Your balcony…

OneWhoKnows

https://youtu.be/8Cm_xcA1Xio

OneWhoKnows

WE KNOW THE TRUTH!! https://youtu.be/glTN6tNzz1g

BarbaryCorsairs

When SAA intercepted US vehicles, they unknowingly, were probably interrupting some kind of U and YPG-SDF oil and narcotics smuggling activities . YPG are notorious regional smugglers of hard narcotics and any thing else illicit they can move and sell on black market.

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jens holm

Sure, they were sitting in golden bathtubs as well playing row row row Your boat having plastic ducks for their children too. It wasnt even friday.

Bob - Enough

Get on with it Russia; you are our last hope.

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