Climbing in the Aleppo and Idlib countryside: Al-Ain in Ain Issa

The field escalation that began days ago in the vicinity of the Ain Issa district in the northern countryside of Raqqa has withdrawn into the countryside of Idlib and Aleppo, which has witnessed the most intense airstrikes for a long time.

For the first time in years, Russian planes raided places near the Bab al-Hawa border crossing and another in the western Aleppo countryside, in parallel with the fall of projectiles in the neighborhoods of the city of Aleppo.

The raids this morning targeted the Al-Maghara hospital in Al-Atareb, in Aleppo’s western countryside, causing five casualties and injuring more than ten, according to local opposition media.

In parallel, projectiles were fired from the western Aleppo field in the Al-Salihin and Al-Firdous neighborhoods, east of Aleppo city, causing two casualties and wounding others, according to the official news agency (SANA).

In a round of raids that occurred hours after today’s first escalation, Russian planes attacked the vicinity of the cities of Sarmada and Qah.

And opposition media indicated that the bombing targeted a gas plant near the Bab al-Hawa border crossing.

The activists broadcast recordings showing the burning of fuel tanker trucks, said to have been destroyed by Russian airstrikes.

The escalation in the Aleppo and Idlib countryside came a day after another similar escalation on the Ain Issa front, where clashes and exchanges of bombing occurred across the lines of contact between the “Syrian Democratic Forces” and the ” National Army “backed by Turkey. .

The accounts of the two parties differed on the cause of the first escalation, but the clashes unfolded in several days, culminating yesterday with Turkish airstrikes directed at points in the vicinity of the Ain Issa district, reaching its northern periphery, near from the international highway (M4).

It was notable that the Turkish Air Force carried out these sorties from the airspace of the northern Raqqa countryside, where it needs coordination with the Russian side to avoid clashes.

On the other hand, Turkish reconnaissance and surveillance aircraft were present in the airspace of the Aleppo and Idlib field, during and after the Russian raids.