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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Government forces shell Turkish military base in Syria’s Azaz
2023-07-11
[NPASyria] On Monday, Syrian government forces shelled a military base of the Ottoman Turkish forces in Aleppo northern countryside.

A military source said that the government forces targeted the Ottoman Turkish military base near the city of Azaz, some 45 km north of Aleppo, with seven missiles.

The shelling comes in coincidence with a military escalation and mutual shelling in the de-escalation zone in northwest Syria for a month.

Although the de-escalation zone in northwest Syria is subject to a Russian-Ottoman Turkish ceasefire agreement signed in March 2020, the area witnesses frequent mutual bombardment between Syrian government forces and opposition factions accompanied by Russian warplanes’ flight despite the entry of the ceasefire into force.

In March 2020, Russia and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
 reached an agreement in Moscow that stipulated a ceasefire, the establishment of a safe corridor, and the conduct of joint patrols on the M4/Aleppo-Latakia Highway.

Azaz and its countryside have been under the occupation of the Ottoman Turkish forces and their affiliated armed opposition factions known as the Syrian National Army (SNA) since July 2012.

Areas held by the Ottoman Turkish forces and their affiliated SNA factions witness security chaos including arrests, kidnappings, thefts, fighting, and successive murders in light of the factions’ disability to maintain security.
Related:
Azaz: 2023-06-11 Turkey is cementing its occupation of Afrin through settlement construction
Azaz: 2023-05-27 Turkey to build 240,000 houses in northern Syria
Azaz: 2023-05-02 SNA factions arrest 5 civilians in Syria’s northern city of Azaz for protesting against the Turkish-backed local council
Related:
Aleppo northern countryside: 2023-06-17 Turkey targets residential sites, hospital in Aleppo northern countryside
Aleppo northern countryside: 2023-06-06 Turkish-occupied Afrin: Old woman killed, man wounded in SNA faction crossfire, SNA cuts down more olive trees
Aleppo northern countryside: 2023-05-27 Turkish-backed SNA faction arrests 3 civilians in Syria’s Afrin
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