The Turkish Defense Ministry said Monday that 10 members of the People's Protection Units (YPG) were killed on the outskirts of Operation Peace Spring in northeastern Syria.
The ministry stated in a tweet on "Twitter" that the Turkish army neutralized 10 members of the "People's Protection Units", the military wing of the Democratic Union Party, saying that they were preparing to attack the "Peaced Spring" region.
Local sources reported that the Turkish forces intensified their bombardment in the morning on the positions of the Kurdish units in the vicinity of the towns of Tal Tamer and Abu Rasain on the eastern outskirts of the "Peace Spring" region, east of the city of "Ras al-Ain".
The sources told Zaman al-Wasl that the shelling focused on the villages of Gabr al-Gharajneh, al-Dardara, Sheikh Ali, al-Fakkah, Umm al-Kif, and Tal Shanan" in the vicinity of "Tal Tamr", adding that the bombing included the town of "Abu Rasin" and the villages of "Al-Asadiya, Khadrawi, Dada Abd, Tal Al-Ward, Al-Rabiat and Khirbet Shaer".
Casualties were reported in the attacks.
This escalation on the "Peace Spring" fronts coincided with the Turkish army launching a military operation against the Kurdistan Workers' Party under the name "Claw Lock" since Sunday, and declaring the neutralization of 19 members of the party.
The Democratic Union Party's Autonomous Administration had organized anti-Turkey rallies in the cities and towns of "Al-Darbasiyah, Al-Malikiyah, Al-Qahtaniyah, Al-Shaddadi and Ain Al-Arab", during which the PKK flags and pictures of its leader, Abdullah Ocalan, were raised in protest against the ongoing military operation in northern Iraq.
The Syrian conflict - which led to the loss of at least 500,000 lives and displaced more than 13,2 million people - began in 2011 after the Assad regime brutally cracked down on peaceful pro-democracy protests.
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