(Zaman Al Wasl)- US-backed militia on Friday pounded a psychiatric hospital on the northern town of Azaz with heavy artillery, leaving 12 people mostly patients wounded, local reporter said.
The border town with Turkey has endured to artillery shelling from the Syrian Democratic Forces.
Jomaa Akkash, head of the medical offices in Azaz said one of the artillery shell hit the mental hospital in the town that hosts about 200 people with mental illness.
Meanwhile, the Kurdish YPG militia said Turkish forces had fired around 70 shells at Kurdish villages in the Afrin region of northwestern Aleppo in a bombardment from Turkish territory that began around midnight and continued into Friday morning.
Rojhat Roj, a YPG spokesman in Afrin, told Reuters it marked the heaviest Turkish bombardment since the Turkish government stepped up threats to take military action against the Kurdish region.
Roj, speaking from Afrin, said the YPG would respond with utmost force to any attack on Afrin.
Turkey's operation in Syria's Kurdish-controlled Afrin region has started "de facto" with cross-border shelling, but no troops have gone into Afrin, Turkish Defense Minister Nurettin Canikli said Friday.
In an interview with broadcaster AHaber, Canikli also said Turkey was developing weapons systems against anti-tank missiles used by the Syrian Kurdish YPG.
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