The Media Center of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) released a statement providing information on the latest wave of attacks by the Turkish army and allied mercenaries in the occupied Gire Spi (Tal Abyad) region and Ain Issa.

According to the statement, the Turkish occupation and its mercenaries conducted a series of heavy weapons attacks targeting several villages in Tal Abyad, the M4 international road as well as the vicinity of Ain Issa between June 21st and July 1st.

SDF stated that the villages attacked by Turkey are (Khirbet Baqar, Arida, Bir Zinar, Laqlouk, Suwan, Mabluja, Zenobia, Sleib, Farhouna, Kor Hassan, Qazali Silos, and its surroundings), as well as the villages nearby the Ain Issa town and the M4 International Road. Those villages have been subjected to violent attacks with artillery and mortar weapons, as well as several attempts to advance that were confronted by our fighters.

As a result of those attacks, a large number of civilians were injured and one civilian, Mohammed Ibrahim al-Heisher, was martyred, SDF reported.

“Within the framework of legitimate self-defense, our fighters responded to the attacks of the Turkish occupation and its mercenaries and conducted a series of retaliation operations resulting in several casualties among the occupation army and its mercenaries,” said the SDF.

According to the statement, the retaliation operations by the SDF resulted in the killing of eight mercenaries, the destroying of two thermal monitoring cameras, two trenches, two military vehicles and a tank.