SOHR: The USA expresses concern about the situation on the Turkey-Syria border

THE Washington calls on “all sides to observe the ceasefire” on the border between Syria and the Turkeythe State Department announced yesterday, Monday, a few days after the increase in shelling in the area, which killed at least 21 civilians, including children.

“The US is deeply concerned about the recent attacks along Syria’s northern border and calls on all sides to maintain the ceasefire lines,” State Department spokesman Ned Price said.

“We mourn the civilian casualties in al-Bab, Hasakeh and elsewhere,” he added, stressing that the US remains committed to “ensuring the final defeat of the Islamic State and a political solution to the Syrian conflict.”

Tensions have been escalating for several weeks between the Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on the one hand and Turkish forces and their Syrian allies on the other.

Kurdish authorities announced Friday that a drone strike by Turkish forces hit a “girls’ education center” in the town of Smuka near Hasakeh, killing four children and injuring 11 others.

The account was confirmed by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which clarified that the children were sleeping at the time of the attack.

In al-Bab, a town controlled by Ankara-backed Syrian groups near the Syrian-Turkish border, “artillery fire by pro-regime forces against a market killed 17 civilians, including six children, and wounded 35.” , the Observatory pointed out.