Turkey intensifies attacks in Syria
Turkey is increasing its offensive in the Syrian war and has attacked in the last hours targets around Aleppo, a city in the north of the Arab country close to the Turkish-Syrian border; in what means a new escalation of tension, added to the increase of US troops in the province of Al-Hasaka.
This Sunday, Turkish army troops and loyalists bombed several villages in the Aleppo enclave in northern Syria, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (OSDH), a UK-based organization with a large network of informants on the ground. This is a further indication that the country's ambition led by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is not diminishing in this respect.
In addition, on Saturday pro-Turkish factions also staged an offensive against a car carrying civilians near the village of Al-Makran, west of Ras al-Ain, on the edge of the Turkish-Syrian border, killing one person and injuring several, according to Al-Ain News.
In addition, last Thursday Turkish forces also bombed several northern towns and the area of the Al-Shahba dam, with violent skirmishes led by Ottoman troops and Kurdish militias.
This is a continuation of the belligerent Turkish activity in the civil war in Syria, where it interfered months ago to harass the Kurdish-Syrians under the pretext of responding to the Kurdish ethnic group, which it accuses of carrying out terrorist attacks in southern Turkey.
Turkey entered northern Syria with its troops to set up checkpoints and pursue the Kurdish-Syrians. These positions were established after the agreement reached with the US State Department, which last year established a security zone in the north of Syrian soil, from which the Kurds were to leave at the demand of Recep Tayyip Erdogan and to which the thousands and thousands of Syrian refugees hosted by Turkey and who fled the civil war were to be sent. This generated controversy because Donald Trump's Executive thus abandoned to their fate Kurdish-Syrian groups such as the People's Protection Units (YPG), integrated into the opposing Democratic Forces of Syria (DSF), momentarily associated with President Bachar al-Asad to drive out the common Turkish enemy even though they were circumscribed to the opposition to the official Syrian regime; which were instrumental in the defeat of Daesh in Syria a year ago, when the bastion of Al-Baghouz fell.
A war, that of Syria, that confronts the government of Bachar al-Asad, supported by Vladimir Putin's Russia, with the insurgents entrenched in the last rebel stronghold of Idlib, where Turkey positioned itself to the point of demanding the withdrawal of Russian troops after a summit led by Ankara and Moscow last February, which did not produce results.
The Al-Asad Administration has been arguing that its objective in the warlike conflict of the Arab country is to end the jihadist terrorism included in the resistance of Idlib, to reunify and to pacify all the country; all this in front of an insurgent opposition side and a new opposition represented by the interests that Turkey defends, nation that receives the support of mercenaries in salary coming from ex branches of terrorist groups like Al-Qaeda.
At the moment, various sources speak of a presence of up to 20,000 Turkish soldiers on Syrian soil, in the north, with some thirty posts of their own around Idlib.
Meanwhile, US influence is growing and the US giant has sent another convoy of military and logistical equipment to Syria's northeastern province of Al-Hasaka.
Up to 50 vehicles, including trucks and armored cars, entered Syrian territory on Sunday night from Iraq, where the U.S. is also positioned. They entered through the Al-Walid pass, which is being controlled by US forces, according to the Syrian news agency SANA. Precisely, by Al-Walid the country directed by Donald Trump also contributes weekly with war and logistic material to the troops of the mentioned FDS.
This movement is in addition to the creation of a base by the United States in Deir Ezzor, in the east of Syria, to reinforce its positions within the warlike conflict that has been developing in the Middle Eastern country since 2011.
The OSDH itself noted on its website that massive American reinforcements have been detected in the town of Al-Jazeera, just west of the oil-rich area of Deir Ezzor. Several analysts see precisely in the oil the main reason why the Trump Administration has intensely resumed interest in Syria, despite its momentary departure when it established the pact with Turkey to abandon its positions and allow the creation of the security zone where Turkish forces were placed to pursue the Kurdish-Syrians.