[REGNUM] The artillery of the Turkish army carried out an attack on the positions of the Kurdish detachments of the People's Self-Defense Forces (SNS) in northern Syria near the city of Manbij. This was reported on February 2 by the Kurdish news agency Firat.Turkish artillery strikes were a response to shelling by the SNA troops of the city of Al-Bab, located 44 km north of Aleppo, where nine members of the Syrian opposition groups supported by Ankara were killed the day before, during shelling on February 2, another 32 were injured.
The Turkish army fired 19 shells at the village of Sheikh Nasser, and another 19 shells were detonated in Es-Sayyad and Yalanli. Information about possible civilian casualties and destruction of civilian infrastructure has not yet been received.
Earlier , REGNUM reported that the Turkish army launched a military operation, code-named "Winter Eagle". The purpose of the operation was the shelter of Kurdish partisans in the vicinity of the cities of Derik, Sinjar and Karachak - in Iraq, as well as the territory of the Syrian provinces of Hasakah and Raqqa.
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