Syrian army declares SDF positions 'legitimate targets' due to 'massacres'
The Syrian army has announced YPG-terror group-led SDF sites in Aleppo as legitimate targets following attacks that killed five people and wounded 16, according to state news agency.
The Syrian army said on Wednesday that military positions of the PKK/YPG terrorist groups operating under the name of SDF in the Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafieh neighbourhoods of Aleppo are “legitimate targets” following the group’s escalation and “massacres” in the province, Syria’s news agency SANA reported.
The announcement came after the SDF renewed shelling of residential neighbourhoods in Aleppo for the second day on Wednesday morning.
Earlier, SANA said the latest attack targeted the Al Suryan neighbourhood in northern Aleppo, while Syrian army units clashed with the terror group along the Castello and Al Sheihan fronts.
The shelling followed the killing of at least five people and the injury of 16 in a series of attacks by SDF terrorists in Aleppo on Tuesday.
The army’s Operations Authority said the two neighbourhoods would be treated as closed military zones after 3 pm local time (1200 GMT), calling on civilians to stay away from SDF positions and announcing a complete ban on movement in the two areas as of that time.