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On June 5, at least eight shells fired by the Turkish military and its proxies landed in the vicinity of a Russian post in the northern countryside of Syria’s Aleppo.
The post in question is located between the towns of Wahshiyah and Umm al-Qura, which are held by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). The Russian Military Police established the post and several others in the SDF-held part of the northern Aleppo countryside a few years ago in order to monitor a de-escalation agreement. The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) is also present in the area.
The shelling didn’t result in any casualties or material losses. Yet, it represents a serious escalation by the Turkish military and its proxies.
Following the incident, the SAA deployed large reinforcements in the SDF-held part of the northern countryside of Aleppo.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that the reinforcements were deployed in the town of Tell Rifaat and the nearby Minaq Air Base. According to the London-based monitoring group, the reinforcements included battle tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, howitzers, rocket launchers and hundreds of troops.
The Turkish military and its proxies began preparing for a new operation against the SDF late on in May. Since then, they have been shelling towns and villages held by the group in northern and northeastern Syria. Six SAA soldiers were wounded as a result of recent artillery strikes on a village held by the SDF in the northern al-Hasakah countryside.
In a recent speech, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that the operation will target the SDF-held towns of Tell Rifaat and Manbij in the northern Aleppo countryside.
Despite Turkey’s provocations, Russian and Syrian forces appear to be determined to maintain a presence in SDF-held areas. This could hinder Ankara’s plans to launch a new operation against the group.
Time to clean Middle East, Caucasus and Africa from MERDOLFGANIST UNHUMAN GENOCIDALS pest, Rossija, SAA, USA and SDF!
Die in a fire
SLAVA ROSSIYA
Take a lead and do it. Go on you can do it unhuman jelly brain.
A SHITturk GRUNTING ABOUT ‘UNHUMAN’???? PARADOX, SHITtila the poor MERDOLFGANIST!
No need,just rid the lgbtq cia/mi6 patrons,no more nwo problem,remmember dud,Russia+irans legit!
WOULD APPRECIATE an ex;anation why the SDF Kurds are being protected by Russia and Syria? Aren’t the Kurds working for the US? Let Erdo Russia, Syria and the Kurds come to a negotiating table.
convenience and politics
The Kurds knew they would going to be sold out at the first moment when supporting them no longer served zio-neocon interests. Besides that they have a common enemy in the Muslim extremists supported by Turkey, which are mostly comprised of fighters previously supported as ‘moderate rebels’ by the west. For the Syrian government it was advantageous to have one less front to fight on, so the two parties made a deal.
Yes and I reiterate the dud posting this mi6/cia cruds the same from reuters(mi6 sodomites) Whats really taking place is turkey works with Russia to force the sdf/isis gay battalion to either submit to assad once and for all or be obliterated either way sdfs fuked,of course cia/mi6 spins it!
Erdogan the backstabber sees Russia occupied in Ukraine and some of its troops in Syria pulled back and strikes now, he was always untrustworthy this scumbag
Putin too soft and diplomatic, like Bashar …. it it was his dad Hafez both Ukraine and Turkey would be toast by now
Stop having too much baked beans you are nothing but hot air Putin and assad and his family biggest terrorists in middle east
Eugeddon lites all are simply way too lame to deal in anything real,Harden the fk up woke poof!
Noses outta joint? So erdo called the shots in nato,just like hunting gulen/soros sdf/kurd pigs down. Trust reuters/MI6/CIA/NEWS? WISEN,TURKEY AND RUSSIA ARE PATROLLING TOGETHER (period)
Whatever mi6,fact remains Russia is now patrolling with turkey,sdf/kurds are nothing burgers!