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Syria has deployed one of its elite military formations in the northern region amid mounting tensions between the Turkish military and Kurdish forces.
Videos from June 19 showed several convoys of the 105th Mechanized Brigade of the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) Republican Guard heading towards the northern Aleppo countryside. The convoys were carrying main battle tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, self-propelled howitzers and hundreds of troops.
The 105th Mechanized Brigade is one of Syria’s most experienced armored formations. The brigade halted rebels’ advance on several directions around Damascus in the early years of the war and later led operations to secure much of the capital’s outskirts.
A Syrian military source told SouthFront that the elite brigade sent as many as 40 tanks among other equipment to the northern Aleppo countryside.
The brigade’s units were reportedly deployed near the city of Manbij, which is held by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). The SAA is allowed to deploy within the group’s areas in the northern Aleppo countryside under an agreement that was reached some five years ago.
The deployment came following a serious confrontation between the Turkish military and the SDF in the northern Aleppo countryside.
Last week, the Turkish military and its proxies launched a series of artillery and drone strikes in the northern Aleppo countryside. News sources close to the SDF said that the Turkish strikes killed 21 people, including fighters of the group, Syrian soldiers and civilians. Many others were wounded.
The SDF responded by shelling Turkish bases and refugee camps in the northern Aleppo countryside. The group’s fire reached the Oncupinar region in southern Turkey. However, there were no Turkish casualties.
The deployment of the Republican Guard in northern Aleppo may be meant to deter both the Turkish military and the SDF, in order to de-escalate tensions in the region.
Meanwhile, Ankara and Damascus remain engaged in normalization talks backed by Russia and Iran. Only an agreement between the two counties could help stabilize northern Syria. Nevertheless, such an agreement does not appear to be near.
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i hope that convoy has air cover,
it is the us that lacks any layered point defense for its ground troops and instead relies on cover from big fat aircraft that anyone can shoot down
time to wipe out the western backed sunni-wahhabi headchoppin terrorists in idlib.
let’s hope so…
agreement does not appear to be near, because turkey prefer play both sides
the best way to resolve the situation in syria is (a) give indirect support and approval to turkey to remove the us and sdf so that turkey is the only remaining occupying power in syria (b) negotiate the exit of turkish forces from syria in exchange for a number of deals and security guarantees
personally, i think that the saa should just let the turks and sdf fight it out themselves …. the more dead and injured; the better for the saa.
wenn die türkei nord-syrien komplett übernehmen sollte, dann ist syrien noch mehr geschwächt. danach wird die türkei damaskus angreifen. denkst du, die bleiben im norden stehen?
tried to reply… comment 12 lines (was too long) so cut it down to 10, then 6… no chance in responding.
ffs.put your comment through google translate. mentioned a few things like turkey linking with russ and syr; also that the el..ite are moving east and south… and they want demise of y.a nky land – seems to have got me in trouble.