US troops have opened fire during a confrontation at a checkpoint in northeast Syria. They allegedly killed a civilian, local media report, after villagers blocked the path of a US military convoy, demanding that they turn back.
The altercation took place near the town of Qamishli in the north-eastern Al-Hasakah Province near the Turkish border, Syria’s state-run SANA news agency said, citing their correspondent. A US armored convoy had stopped at a Syrian Army checkpoint on Wednesday morning. Hundreds of locals from two nearby villages reportedly tried to block the vehicles from going further, and the American soldiers responded by firing “smokes bombs” and live rounds, killing one civilian and wounding another.
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