On December 20, Turkish-backed militants opened fire at a patrol of the Russian Military Police, which was moving to reopen the M4 highway in northeastern Syria. The patrol, which set off from the town of Ain Issa in northern Raqqa, was tasked with escorting a convoy of civilian vehicles along …

By December 19 morning, all clashes around Ain Issa, in the northern countryside of Raqqa, ended. Turkish forces have not shelled the town and its outskirts for the last few hours.

With the closure of the file of the Syrian mercenaries in Azerbaijan, who were recruited by the Erdogan terrorist regime, there appeared the absence of 240 Syrians whose fate has not yet been identified, as 7,000 Syrians have been displaced from their villages as a result of the Turkish bombing.