Pro-Assad Syrian militias finally arrived in Afrin region to help Kurd YPG despite Turk-Russian deal. The arrived militias are actually HIzbullah's Aleppo offshoot near to Afrin region. These militias backed by Iran and Syrian president Bashar-ul-Assad, wanted to fight Turk and pro-Turk FSA rebel groups alongside Kurd YPG and were trying to approach the Kurd areas for two days but Turk bombardment and shelling on the roads didn't give them any chance to move further.
Some of the convoy's even retreated back toward Syrian held Aleppo areas but yesterday, somehow a convoy arrived in Afrin despite Turk efforts to stop them. The Turk bombardment on The road toward Afrin can be seen below.
Turk forces and Pro-Turk rebels captured new areas in Afrin enclave. Yesterday, after capturing more areas with Turk border now Turk forces have 80% of the border area from Afrin enclave's side.
Rebels infighting has started again between HTS (Hayat Tahrir alSham) and their former sub group Nour alDin alZenki Movement. Zinki movement is now the part of newly created JTS (Jabhat Tahrir alSuriya) and its supreme commander also announce the full scale responce/war on HTS. HTS is the main rebel group in Idlib province and surrounding. It seems that Pro-Turk group JTS want to expel HTS to implement Turk-Russian deals in order to prevent it from any further attack on the rebel held areas in Northern Syria.
After ground offensive has started two days ago, the nonstop artillery shelling and airstrikes are going on in popular areas and all towns of besieged Ghouta in E. Damascus. For the first time, Russian air-force is also bombing the rebel held areas in Damascus alongside Syrian air-force.
In first 48 hours of offensive, about 210 people were dead and now after almost 60 hours more than 250 people are dead in the bombing campaign which include more than 70 children and many women. Hundreds of the civilians are also injured.
In first two and half days of Ghouta offensive, Syrian forces and its allied forces air and groung bombardment targeted several hospitals, 8 clinics and 4 medical facilities. Most of the targeted medical facilities are now out of order. Some of the civilians like women and children from some families are hiding in underground caces and tunnels due to heavy ongoing bombardment on popular areas.
Sources: 1, 2, 3, 4.
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