"If I don't know how to fight, I will lock myself in my house and fly away, even if I go to hell"

• Offensive. "The entire border between Syria and Turkey is burning"
• Attack: Turkey launches its ground and air attack against Kurdish forces in Syria

Barzam Ahmed acknowledges that he has never handled a weapon, that he is only a lawyer who was trained in Holland , but even so - speaking his words with eyes full of tears - he will return to Qamishli to "fight."

"And if I don't know how to do it, I'll lock myself in my house and fly away, even if I go to hell, " he adds with the same bitterness with which he expresses himself.

The 40-year-old Kurdish presented himself this morning at the border post that divides the Syrian territory and that controlled by the Kurdistan authorities accompanied by his three daughters.

They had fled from Qamishli hours before, after an early morning he described as "terrifying." The city was the target of continued punishment of Syrian artillery and has also become the scene of sporadic clashes between Kurdish militias and soldiers loyal to Bashar al Assad, who control some areas of the town - including the airport - from the Beginning of the civil war.

"The regime is taking advantage of the chaos to try to advance in Qamishli but Kurdish militiamen have stopped them," he said.

Ahmed's information, confirmed by other Syrians who have fled from Qamishli, confirms the potential destabilization of the present Turkish offensive against northern Syria , which has led to a state of general confusion that all factions intend to take advantage of.

The same Islamic State has reinforced its attacks in several localities in the area and now it seems that the regime's army is also trying to advance its positions by taking advantage of the weakness of the Kurdish forces .

"I would like to express what I think about America and Europe, but I don't find a word hard enough to do it," Ahmed added before continuing his journey.

The family is part of the large conglomerate of people fleeing clashes in northern Syria in the midst of an offensive whose human cost begins to emulate the dynamics of repeated tragedies suffered by this Arab country since 2011. The dead are counted by dozens and the displaced could already be around 200,000, according to the estimate of Kurdish officials in the northern region.

On the battlefield, Ankara reported that the uniforms of the so-called Syrian National Army - a faction under Turkish control - had captured the center of one of the two main cities where the land offensive is focusing: Ras el Ain.

However, a spokesman for the SDF, Marvan Qamishlo, denied such an extreme and said that the allied forces of Turkey have only managed to enter the industrial district of that town but there they have been stopped by Kurdish militias. "The fighting continues in the industrial district," he added.

Although the Turkish president, RecepTayyip Erdogan, said Friday that the attack "will not stop, whatever they say" - after receiving severe criticism from the international community - the last few hours demonstrated the enormous risk involved in this operation for Ankara after that the US military suffered an attack by the Turkish artillery, which caused no casualties.

The serious incident - it is perhaps an unprecedented event that an NATO ally attacks another - occurred near the town of Kobane. "The Turks know there are US troops there , " said US captain Brook DeWalt, a Pentagon spokesman.

The uniformed man allowed himself to warn the Turks that any other altercation of this type could trigger "an immediate defensive action . "

"A few hundred meters from the US military post"

The Turkish defense minister, Hulusi Akar, denied the information disseminated by the US but the latter were very precise: "howitzers fell a few hundred meters" from the US military post , according to its version.

According to Akar, the true objective of his artillery was a group of Kurdish fighters . "All measures were taken not to touch the American post," he added.

Although it was US President Donald Trump himself who granted Tacit permission to Ankara to launch this attack , the Turkish nation is now facing increasing pressure from many sectors of Washington.

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin himself clarified that Trump has already authorized a "very significant" package of new sanctions against Turkey, all ironic about the president's previous attitude.

The Turkish Foreign Minister responded by saying that his country will "respond" to any measure of this kind , in another sign of the spiral in which this crisis has been entered that threatens to overwhelm the local framework that it intended to have and become a multiple conflict destined to aggravate the suffering of a nation - the Syrian - that has been bleeding for years.

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