Amid brazen makes an attempt by rival Turkish-backed Takfiri militants to consolidate their grip on areas below their management, the extremists have turned towards one another and engaged in a fierce alternate of fireside in Syria’s northeastern province of Hasakah.
Syria’s official information company SANA, citing native sources, reported that bloody infighting broke out on Thursday between militants affiliated with the Hamza Division, which is a faction of the so-called Free Syrian Army educated and geared up by the US and Turkey, within the village of Tal Arqam on the outskirts of Ras al-Ayn metropolis.
The report added that rival militants attacked one another’s positions intensely, utilizing heavy machine weapons and semi-heavy weapons. A number of Takfiris had been killed and injured within the course of.
Turkey has deployed forces in Syria in violation of the Arab nation’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.
Ankara-backed militants had been deployed to northeastern Syria in October 2019 after Turkish navy forces launched a long-threatened cross-border invasion in a declared try to push fighters of the Kurdish Individuals’s Safety Units (YPG) away from border areas.
Ankara views the US-backed YPG as a terrorist group tied to the homegrown Kurdistan Staff’ Get together (PKK), which has been looking for an autonomous Kurdish area in Turkey since 1984.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and different senior officers have mentioned Damascus will reply by way of all reputable means out there to the continuing floor offensive by Turkish forces within the northern a part of the Arab nation.
Villagers, Syrian govt. forces block US navy convoy, pressure it to retreat
Individually, a US navy convoy has been compelled to retreat from an space in Syria’s Hasakah province after native residents in coordination with authorities forces prevented it from trying to go by way of their group.
SANA reported {that a} US convoy of 4 armored autos was compelled on Wednesday afternoon to show round and head again within the course it got here from after locals of al-Qusayr village blocked the highway and prevented its motion.
The US navy has stationed forces and tools in jap and northeastern Syria, with the Pentagon claiming that the deployment is aimed toward stopping the oil fields within the space from falling into the fingers of the Daesh terrorists.
Damascus, nevertheless, says the illegal deployment is supposed to plunder the nation’s sources.
Former US President Donald Trump admitted on a number of events that American forces had been in Syria for its oil.
After failing to oust the Syrian authorities with the assistance of its proxies and direct involvement within the battle, the US authorities has now stepped up its financial warfare on the Arab nation.
