Eight children were among 11 civilians killed Monday in a Turkish artillery attack that hit near a school in a northern Syrian town in Aleppo province, a war monitor said, according to AFP.
The shelling on Tal Rifaat, controlled by local Kurdish fighters, took place as students were leaving the building and wounded 21 others, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Most of those killed in the attack were displaced from the Afrin region which was captured last year by Turkish troops and their Syrian proxies, Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman said.
Tal Rifaat, a strategic town located 20 kilometres (12 miles) south of Turkey’s frontier, is the site of regular confrontations between Turkish-backed forces and Kurdish fighters they view as “terrorists.”
Turkey threatened to launch a cross-border offensive to capture Tal Rifaat last year after taking Afrin from the US-backed People’s Protection Units (YPG) militia.
But Russia intervened to stop the planned offensive.
Tal Rifaat is held by local Kurdish fighters displaced from Afrin, the Observatory head said.
Russian forces and regime troops are also currently deployed inside the town, Abdel Rahman added.
Meanwhile, Turkey’s Defense Ministry on Monday announced that regime strikes targeting the Idlib region in Syria killed 14 civilians and injured 27 others.
In 2018, Turkey and Russia agreed to turn Idlib into a de-escalation zone in which acts of aggression are expressly prohibited, according to the state-run Anadolu news agency.
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