Smoke billows from a fire on a target in Ras al-Ayn, Syria, caused by shelling by Turkish forces, Thursday, Oct. 17, 2019.
photo: AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis
KurdSat News correspondent in Rojava reported that Turkish forces and armed coalition groups shelled the village of Tal Tawili on the Assyrian coast of Tal Tamr this morning.
Also, the Turkish Army shelled the villages of Tal Muziq and Harbali in Shahba area. Ankara frequently targeted civilian centers in Northern and Eastern Syria that the Syrian Democratic Forces control.
Turkey is preparing to launch a new military operation in northern Syria. Announced a few weeks ago by Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the plans for a cross-border incursion were endorsed on Thursday, May 26, by the Security Council, comprised of civilian and military leaders.
Turkey claims to create a “safe haven” for Syrian refugees in the strip of land it tried to invade.
In a summit in Tehran on July 19, Iran and Russia explicitly advised against any military operation in Syria, and Iran’s supreme leader called it “destabilizing.”