The SDF said they destroyed three Turkish tanks, a claim that proven right by many Turkish media outlets.
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A Reuters witness in Karkamis, a Turkish border town, heard jets and artillery strike within Syria.
Mourners carry a coffin during a funeral procession in Gaziantep, Turkey on August 21, 2016, a day after a bombing at a wedding party in the southeastern city killed over 50 people. It also condemned what it said was worldwide silence regarding “Turkish occupation” of Syria.
One business owner in the district, who asked not to be identified due to security concerns, expressed his satisfaction about reopening his shop shutters once again. The “Islamic State” (IS, ISIL, ISIS or Daesh), the YPG and the PYD are the most active terrorist groups in Syria. It has been besieged for months with only intermittent global aid deliveries getting through. Turkey has said its campaign is against Islamic State and also aims at stopping Kurdish forces extending territory they control.
The Dogan News Agency said the rockets landed near a police checkpoint close to civilian aviation facilities, sending passengers and airport staff scrambling for shelter inside the civilian terminal.
The declaration Saturday comes only a day after the evacuation of almost 5,000 residents and fighters from the suburb began. Other civilians were escorted to shelters in government-controlled suburbs of Damascus.
State television said: “The Daraya file is now closed after the evacuation of all the civilians, armed men and their families under the agreement”, reached on Thursday between the regime and rebels.
Russia, which backs Assad, has endorsed the proposal. Meanwhile a bloody battle for the northern city of Aleppo, Syria’s largest, is ongoing.
The Kurdish fighters have been key allies of the U.S in the fight against ISIS in Iraq and Syria, but the Turkish government sees those fighters as a group linked to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, the pro-separatist group that the Turks have been fighting for years.
ANHA, the news agency of the Kurdish semi-autonomous areas, said the town of Beir Khoussa, around nine miles south of Jarabulus, has “reportedly lost all its residents” following the bombardments on Sunday. However, opposition factions had won control over the village after fighting with these forces using light weapons.
Turkey, he said, also is determined to “uproot” the Syrian Kurdish group, calling it a terrorist organization.
Turkey’s military struck deeper into Syria with airstrikes and artillery strikes on Sunday after the Turkish soldier died and three others were wounded on Saturday when their tank unit came under attack by Kurdish rebels, known as the YPG. RIVALRIES AND ALLIANCES The Jarablus Military Council said the village of al-Amarna, which lies a few km south of Jarablus, was hit.
The Turkish military support enabled the Syrian rebels of capturing Jarablus from the hands of the Islamic State (IS) group.
Ankara says the YPG has broken a promise made to the USA to go back across the Euphrates River after advancing westwards earlier this month.
SDF spokesman Shervan Darwish said the airstrikes and shelling began overnight and continued Sunday along the front line, killing many civilians in Beir Koussa and nearby areas.
Syrian activists say government war planes have attacked a besieged area in the central city of Homs with incendiary bombs that killed two children and left one badly burned.
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The Jarablus Military Council says the airstrikes Saturday on their bases in Amarneh village marked an “unprecedented and unsafe escalation” and came after Turkish artillery shelled the positions the day before. Turkish officials could not immediately be reached for comment. It has been coordinating with U.S. warplanes and special forces in a broad military coalition against IS fighters.
