Three people from the same family were killed in an attack by the Turkish army in Ain Issa. The victims are a 60-year-old man and two of his grandchildren, aged ten and three. The mother and two other children were injured.
Ignored by the world, the Turkish army and its jihadist mercenaries have once again intensified their attacks on the autonomous region of North and East Syria in recent days. Last night, the occupation forces carried out a massacre in Ain Issa.
Three people from the same family were killed in the attack on the village of Al-Shirka (El Şirkê) on the eastern outskirts of Ain Issa. The victims are a 60-year-old man and his three and ten-year-old grandsons. The children's mother was seriously injured, as were two other children of hers, aged twelve and five. They were taken to a hospital in Raqqa where they are undergoing emergency surgery. The hospital has not yet provided information on their condition.
Ain Issa has been one of the preferred targets of the Turkish army and its Islamist proxy troops for years. The town is located south of the Turkish occupation zone around Girê Spî (Tal Abyad) and is strategically important as a link between the self-governing regions of Euphrates (Kobanê) and Cizîrê, as it lies on the important M4 motorway, which runs through northern Syria like a lifeline and represented a strategic supply route for ISIS. Ain Issa has been in the crosshairs of the invading forces since 2019.
Immediately after the occupation of Serêkaniyê (Ras al-Ain) and Girê Spî in October four years ago, a war of attrition was launched against Ain Issa. The bombardments are mainly directed against civilian settlements. Dozens of villages in the region have already been destroyed and depopulated by the belligerent actions of Turkey. Positions of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) are also repeatedly under fire. The international community ignores Turkey's crimes in its neighbouring country.
The documentation centre for violations of the ceasefire and de-escalation agreements concluded between the guarantor powers Russia and the USA with Turkey after the last war of aggression against AANES in October 2019 has since counted at least 118 dead and injured civilians in Ain Issa alone as a result of attacks by the Turkish army and its Islamists. A Turkish air offensive last November also laid waste to large parts of the infrastructure.
