According to ANHA (Hawar News Agency) based in Rojava, the occupying Turkish army and its gangs bombarded the village of Xirêbkê in Shêrawa district of occupied Afrin and the Menagh military air base in Shehba region.

No information could be obtained about the results of the bombardment.

The Menagh air base is located on the outskirts of the village of Minix (also known as Minaq or Minnigh), a few minutes' drive north-east of Tel Rifat in the canton of Shehba-Afrin. The area is controlled by the Syrian army and is repeatedly targeted by the Turkish army and its affiliated jihadist militias.

Shehba is located between Aleppo and Afrin, trapped in a desert-like no man's land between the Syrian regime and the Turkish occupation zone. Around 200,000 inhabitants of the region are people from Afrin who were displaced from their homes in the course of the Turkish war of aggression in 2018. The population is constantly under attack by the Turkish army and its Islamist mercenaries.

According to the Afrin Liberation Forces (HRE), the occupying Turkish state continued its attacks on the Afrin and Shehba regions in March. Between 1-31 March, a total of 121 attacks were launched against 44 villages and towns in Afrin and Shehba. The attacks caused material damage.

In 2023, the occupying Turkish state and its mercenaries attacked the Afrin and Shehba regions with howitzers, mortars, tanks, missiles, grenade launchers, armed drones and kamikaze drones 8,992 times, according to Shehba Defence Forces.

The northern Syrian canton of Afrin has been under Turkish occupation since 2018. The brutal campaign began on 20 January 2018, when Turkey launched air strikes on 100 locations as the onset of an invasion they dubbed ‘Operation Olive Branch.’ After two months of resistance, civilians fled and the SDF retreated to avoid further losses as hundreds of civilians died during the course of the genocidal campaign in violation of international law.