Violent clashes erupted Feb. 22 between members of the civilian police and security forces on the one hand and the military police on the other in Syria’s city of Afrin, in the northern countryside of Aleppo, under the control of Turkish-backed Syrian factions. Two members of the civilian police and a woman were injured in the infighting.
A displaced person from eastern Ghouta who witnessed the incident told Al-Monitor on condition of anonymity that a fistfight first erupted between members of the civilian police and the military police before it culminated in a shootout near Al-Mowasalat Street in the center of Afrin. Another clash erupted nearby between people standing in queues to receive aid, he added.
