Syrian army says SDF positions in Aleppo ‘legitimate targets’ after its ‘massacres’

By Lina Altawell

ISTANBULL (AA) – The Syrian army said Wednesday that military positions of the PKK/YPG terrorist groups operating under the name of SDF in the Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafieh neighborhoods of Aleppo are “legitimate targets” following the group’s escalation and “massacres” in the province, Syria’s news agency SANA reported.

It came after the SDF renewed shelling of residential neighborhoods in Aleppo for the second day on Wednesday morning.

The shelling followed the killing of at least five people and the injury of 16 others in a series of attacks by SDF terrorists in Aleppo on Tuesday.

The army’s Operations Authority said the two neighborhoods would be treated as closed military zones after 3 p.m. 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.