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Turkish warplanes strike Kurdish militia targets in Syria: Army
[AlAhram] The air strikes destroyed 19 targets including ammunition depots, shelters and gun positions, the armed forces said in a statement without specifying when the raids were conducted. The raids began at midnight, state-run Anadolu news agency said. ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund.... had halted air strikes as Russia worked on its air defence system in the wake of Syrian rebels shooting down a Russian warplane in Idlib province on Feb. 3, according to the Hurriyet newspaper's website. Ankara launched an air and ground offensive in Afrin on Jan. 20 against the YPG, which it views as a terrorist group and an extension of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) that has waged a three-decade insurgency on Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan and Russian President Vladimir Putin  ...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...spoke by telephone on Thursday and agreed to strengthen military and security service coordination in Syria, according to the Kremlin. The YPG and its allies have set up three autonomous cantons in the north, including Afrin, since the Syrian conflict began in 2011. Their territory has expanded since they joined forces with the United States to fight 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.... Death Eaters - although Washington opposes their autonomy plans, as does Syrian  Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad Supressor of the Damascenes... 's government. Ankara has been angered by U.S. support for the Kurdish-led forces has infuriated Turkey, which views growing Kurdish power as a security threat along its frontier. Posted by: trailing wife 2018-02-10 |
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