The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported that violent clashes erupted at midnight between two groups of Ahrar Al-Sham Islamic movement.

Accordingly, the fighting broke out near Kawa Junction in the middle of Afrin city, after an argument between the two groups that developed into the eruption of violent clashes between both sides.

The fighting resulted in the injury of a member of the so-called "military police" who intervened to break the clash.

On July 15, SOHR reported that a displaced man from Al-Qaboun neighbourhood in Damascus was shot dead by members of Turkish-backed military police during a raiding operation against drug dealers in Sateer village in the Afrin countryside within the “Olive Branch” area.

This followed armed clashes between members of military police and drug dealers, said SOHR,  noting that the victim was near the site where the clashes took place.