Feb 17, 2020, 17:05 pm
A Syrian civilian has lost his life and another sustained gunshot wounds after US military forces fired shots at a group of local residents east of Syria’s northeastern Kurdish-populated city of Qamishli.
Syria’s official news agency SANA reported that Syrian army troops stopped four US military vehicles at a checkpoint in the town of Khirbet Ummo on the morning of February 12, adding that hundreds of civilians gathered at the checkpoint and prevented the patrol from passing.
The report noted that US forces then fired live bullets and gas grenades on the people, killing one and wounding another from the nearby village of Hamou.
Civilians attacked the American convoy in response, and damaged the vehicles, prompting the US forces to bring additional vehicles to tow the damaged ones.
Elsewhere in Bweir al-Bouassi village on the outskirts of Qamishli, locals pelted US armored vehicles with stones, forcing them to stop.
A number of young men reportedly got on top of one of the vehicles and took down the US flag from it.
https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/02/1...-US-forces-
Syria’s official news agency SANA reported that Syrian army troops stopped four US military vehicles at a checkpoint in the town of Khirbet Ummo on the morning of February 12, adding that hundreds of civilians gathered at the checkpoint and prevented the patrol from passing.
The report noted that US forces then fired live bullets and gas grenades on the people, killing one and wounding another from the nearby village of Hamou.
Civilians attacked the American convoy in response, and damaged the vehicles, prompting the US forces to bring additional vehicles to tow the damaged ones.
Elsewhere in Bweir al-Bouassi village on the outskirts of Qamishli, locals pelted US armored vehicles with stones, forcing them to stop.
A number of young men reportedly got on top of one of the vehicles and took down the US flag from it.
https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/02/1...-US-forces-