Four civilians, including three children, were killed in northwestern Azaz town due to a rocket attack by the US-backed Kurdish YPG militia.
According to local activists, 12 more people were injured in the opposition-held town of Azaz, which was the target of rockets fired from the nearby town of Tal Rifaat.
Opposition forces responded to the attack with artillery fire on the terror group's positions in Tal Rifaat.
Three children and a man were injured in an IED explosion in #Azaz City, north #Aleppo today before the missile attacks hit the city. Our teams inspected the explosion site and secured it.#WhiteHelmets pic.twitter.com/BLqVIW7A7z
— The White Helmets (@SyriaCivilDef) February 15, 2022
Ankara considers Kurdish fighters who control a swath of Syrian territory along Turkey’s border to be “terrorists”, allied with Kurdish rebels operating within Turkey.
Turkey has carried out three military offensives in Syria since 2016, mostly to drive the Syrian Kurdish militia away from its border.
The Syrian conflict has claimed 494,438 lives and has displaced 13,2 million people since it erupted in March 2011 with the brutal repression of anti-regime protests.
Zaman, AA
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