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Turkey says it returns fire after attack by Syrian Kurds
[AlAhram] ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's military says it has returned fire after a cross-border attack by Syrian Kurdish forces. A statement Wednesday said the People's Protection Units, or YPG, fired on Turkish territory overnight with anti-aircraft weapons from Syria's Afrin region. Turkish artillery units returned fire, destroying the "detected targets." The YPG is the main component of the Syrian Democratic Forces, a U.S.-backed militia that is battling the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group in the myrmidons' de facto capital, Raqqa. Turkey views the YPG as an extension of the Kurdish insurgency raging in its southeast. Posted by: trailing wife 2017-06-29 |
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