The State Department expressed concern about the situation on the Syrian-Turkish border, asking “all parties to respect the ceasefire.”

Shelling has intensified in the area in recent days, killing at least 21 civilians, including children.

” USA are deeply concerned about the recent shelling along the northern border of Syria and call on all parties to respect the ceasefire lines,” State Department spokesman Ned Price said yesterday, Monday.

“We mourn the civilian casualties in al-Bab, Hasakah and elsewhere,” he added, stressing that the US remains committed to “ensuring the final defeat of the Islamic State and a political solution to the Syrian conflict.”

Increased tension in the area.

For weeks, tensions have escalated between the Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on the one hand, and Turkish forces and their Syrian allies on the other.

Kurdish authorities announced on Friday that Turkish forces had launched a drone strike on an “educational center for girls” in the town of Smuka near Hasaka, killing four children and injuring 11.

This information was confirmed by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which specified that the children were asleep at the time of the attack.

In al-Bab, a city controlled by Ankara-backed Syrian groups close to the Syrian-Turkish border, “an artillery shelling of a market by pro-government forces killed 17 civilians, including six children, and wounded 35 people.” .

Source: APE-MPE, AFP.