Syria
Clashes broke out on Tuesday between Asayish forces and Syrian-backed militia in Qamishli, NE Syria. April 21, 2021. Photo: screenshot/Rudaw
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region — At least two children were killed during ongoing clashes between northeast Syria’s (Rojava) internal security forces (Asayish) and militia affiliated with the Syrian regime in Qamishli, a medical source confirmed to Rudaw.
A ten-year-old and a 12-year-old were killed on the third day of clashes in the Kurdish-majority city of Qamishli on Thursday, Khabat hospital’s health staff confirmed to Rudaw’s Viviyan Fattah on Thursday.
Clashes broke out between the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria’s Asayish forces and Syrian government-backed National Defense Forces (NDF) on Tuesday night.
One member of the Asayish forces was also killed during the clashes earlier in the week.
This comes after an “understanding” was reached between the two sides at a meeting at the Qamishli airport on Wednesday through Russian intervention in a meeting to stop the clashes, North Press Agency (NPA) reported on Wednesday.
However, Rojava’s interior authority’s co-chair Haifei Mustafa told NPA on Thursday morning that they have not reached a final agreement yet.
"Even if the Russia-brokered ceasefire materializes between the two sides, we cannot deem it a lasting agreement. This is merely a truce, not a lasting solution,” Basman al-Assaf, head of the United Syria Association, a political organization in Rojava, told Rudaw’s Nalin Hassan on Thursday.
“According to the ceasefire, Russian troops are to be deployed in the locations where fighting took place and the rivalling sides will be removed from them,” he added.
A ten-year-old and a 12-year-old were killed on the third day of clashes in the Kurdish-majority city of Qamishli on Thursday, Khabat hospital’s health staff confirmed to Rudaw’s Viviyan Fattah on Thursday.
Clashes broke out between the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria’s Asayish forces and Syrian government-backed National Defense Forces (NDF) on Tuesday night.
One member of the Asayish forces was also killed during the clashes earlier in the week.
This comes after an “understanding” was reached between the two sides at a meeting at the Qamishli airport on Wednesday through Russian intervention in a meeting to stop the clashes, North Press Agency (NPA) reported on Wednesday.
However, Rojava’s interior authority’s co-chair Haifei Mustafa told NPA on Thursday morning that they have not reached a final agreement yet.
"Even if the Russia-brokered ceasefire materializes between the two sides, we cannot deem it a lasting agreement. This is merely a truce, not a lasting solution,” Basman al-Assaf, head of the United Syria Association, a political organization in Rojava, told Rudaw’s Nalin Hassan on Thursday.
“According to the ceasefire, Russian troops are to be deployed in the locations where fighting took place and the rivalling sides will be removed from them,” he added.
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