Attacks against TAF by groups cut off from aid distributed by HTS are increasing. Ankara, however, also has the Kurdistan issue. Erdogan has two choices.
TAF fighters attacked the SDF in Sayda (Ain Issa) on the Nowruz eve. It is no longer proxy war, Ankara is fueling an escalation with unpredictable outcomes.
One is in Tel Mannakh and the other in Rashidiyah. For Ankara it is the same script as Zawiya in Idlib. Objectives: not to allow SDF-SAA to advance and create a platform for a possible offensive.
Internal clashes between local groups, which do not enjoy aid from Ankara such as HTS, increase. The qaedists entity also has less and less grip on them.
The soldiers failed to counter IS ambushes between Deir Ezzor-Homs. For Turkey 2 new problems in the north: the US and the Ansar Abu Bakr al-Siddiq Brigade.