Maintenance teams have begun this night to repair the Syrian dam of Tishirin, in the province of Aleppo, a crucial infrastructure to guarantee the survival of thousands of people, whose existence has run serious danger to having been one of the epicenters of the recent fighting between Kurdish-Arab militias and armed groups backed by Türkiye.
“The maintenance teams have already entered the Tishrin dam, in the surroundings of the city of Manbij, to start repairing the cracks and thus resume their operation,” the official Syrian news agency knows, healthy, in a statement.
The Kurdish authorities of the Northeast of Syria have spent months warning that a collapse of the dam, which has so far been under control of its Syrian Democratic forces (FDS), would have represented a humanitarian catastrophe.
However, the FDS accepted this week the partial assignment of the control of the facilities as part of an agreement with the new Syrian authorities, and now it is the Ministry of Interior who deals with their custody, in exchange for guaranteeing the security of the population.
The militias that Turkey supports are the so -called Syrian National Army and its objective is to eliminate any trace of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK, a group that Turkey has declared as a terrorist organization) or allied groups in the ranks of the FDS.
The FDS accused the militias of the Ens of intensifying their attacks against the dam, as well as against the strategic bridge of Qere Qozaq in December, when a coalition of rebels led by Islamist Hayat Tahrir al Sham (HTS) overthrew the regime of former president Bashar al Assad after taking Damascus.