At least four people were killed and more than a dozen injured in shelling on #Syria's city of Afrin and a separate rocket attack on its outskirts, medics at a local hospital and civil defense rescue workers say.https://t.co/4lo5nKbuLP
— Al Arabiya English (@AlArabiya_Eng) January 21, 2022
At least four people were killed and more than a dozen injured in shelling on the Syrian city of Afrin and a separate rocket attack on its outskirts on Thursday, medics at a local hospital and civil defense rescue workers said.
They were the latest in years of attacks on the northwestern enclave controlled by
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...and the Syrian rebels it backs. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the assaults.
Turkey has blamed previous attacks there on the Syrian Kurdish YPG group, which held the Afrin area until
The shelling on Afrin city killed three people and maimed a dozen more people, the medics and rescue workers said.
The separate rocket attack on a car killed a woman and maimed three more people in the town of Maryamayn on the ouskirts of Afrin, they added.
Turkey regards the YPG as a terrorist group tied to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) inside its own borders, and has staged incursions into Syria in support of Syrian rebels to push it back from the
The YPG views Turkey as an occupying force.