Clashes erupted between Turkish backed rebel factions operating in previously Kurdish held northern Syrian town of Tal Tamr, Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported on Sunday.
According to the SOHR report, gunmen of “Sultan Murad” and another armed group of “Al-Hamzat Division” exchanged fire in fierce clashes with light and medium weapons near villages in the western countryside of Tal Tamr. These areas are under the control of the “Peace Spring” mission carried out by the Turkish Armed Forces in late 2019.
There are reported casualties on both sides. The reasons behind this armed fight have yet to be known, says the SOHR report.
SOHR sources previously reported on August 11 that villages in the “Peace Spring” areas in al-Hasakeh countryside experienced infighting among Turkish-backed factions, following a dispute over revenue-sharing of stolen objects they looted from civilian houses in the areas of Ras al-Ain and Tal Tamer.
According to Observatory sources, clashes erupted in the villages of Shallah, Thyabiya, and Rayhania between the members of Sultan Murad and Ahrar al-Sharqqiya, as Sultan Murad sold the Ahrar al-Sharqiya’s share of the stolen objects.
Turkey launched Operation Peace Spring aimed at clearing the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), spearheaded by the Kurdish-militant group YPG, from its border in October 2019.
Ankara maintains that the YPG is indistinguishable from Turkey’s outlawed militant Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and has long been angered by US support for the group during the five-year-long campaign to defeat the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
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from Turkish Minute https://www.turkishminute.com/2020/08/31/armed-fight-among-turkish-backed-factions-in-northern-syria/
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