Syrian government, Kurdish-led SDF trade blame over northern Syria attack

Defence Ministry accuses Kurdish-led SDF of injuring 4 service unit and 3 civilians successful rocket onslaught adjacent Manbij.

Syria’s Ministry of Defence has accused the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) of carrying retired a rocket onslaught connected a subject presumption successful bluish Syria, injuring 4 service unit and 3 civilians.

In a connection carried by Syria’s authoritative SANA quality agency, the ministry said the subject was capable to repel the onslaught successful the countryside of the metropolis of Manbij.

“The service forces are moving to woody with the sources of occurrence that targeted the civilian villages adjacent the deployment lines,” the ministry said, adding successful a aboriginal connection that the subject was carrying retired “precise strikes”.

But the United States-backed SDF said successful a connection that it was responding to “an unprovoked artillery battle targeting civilian-populated areas with much than 10 shells” from factions operating wrong Syrian authorities ranks.

The connection made nary notation of casualties.

The incidental comes aft the SDF signed a woody successful March with Syria’s caller interim authorities to integrate into authorities institutions.

The SDF has controlled a semi-autonomous portion successful the northeastern portion of the state since 2015, and the deal, if implemented, would bring that territory nether the afloat power of Syria’s cardinal government, led by interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa.

Al-Sharaa led the lightning rebel violative that toppled longtime Syrian President Bashar al-Assad successful December past year.

Discussions implicit the integration of the SDF into the Syrian authorities had been ongoing since the autumn of al-Assad, but were hampered by divides fostered implicit years of civilian war.

The woody reached successful March did not specify however the SDF would beryllium merged with the Syrian equipped forces.

The SDF has antecedently said its forces indispensable articulation arsenic a bloc, portion Damascus wants them to articulation arsenic individuals.

“While we reaffirm our committedness to respecting the existent de-escalation arrangements, we telephone connected the applicable authorities successful the Syrian authorities to instrumentality work and bring the undisciplined factions nether their control,” the SDF said successful its statement.

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