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In parallel with the recapture of Aleppo, on Sunday December 1, other rebel militias supported by Turkey launched an operation against the Kurdish forces who hold the north of the region. Civilians trapped in disputed areas fear for their safety.
“We are surrounded by the sounds of artillery, we can see warplanes in the sky, the situation is chaotic!” Trapped in the fighting, Jamil (1) fears “to upload a massacre. He has now been trying for more than forty-eight hours, like nearly 200,000 civilians, to flee the canton of Shehba. This small exclave, located north of Aleppo, is controlled by the predominantly Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) who hold the northeast of the country. “A huge column of 20,000 cars, tractors and trucks stretches for several kilometers near the village of Fafin, but the roads are blocked and nothing moves,” he describes with difficulty.
Taking advantage of the surge created by the withdrawal of troops from the Bashar al-Assad regime in the region, the Syrian National Army (SNA), a coalition of rebel militias supported by Turkey launched, on Sunday, December 1, an offensive aimed at forcing the Kurdish defense lines. Faced with the assault, FDS general Mazloum Abdi announced “the opening of a humanitarian corridor” in order to evacuate the populations “in complete safety
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