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Eight Turkish soldiers killed in Syria, 13 wounded
 [ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... suffered heavy losses on Thursday during its offensive against a Kurdish militia in northwest Syria, with the military announcing that eight soldiers were killed and 13 more maimed. The corpse count, released by the "As part of the operations in Afrin, five of our heroic comrades fell as deaders and seven were maimed" on Thursday, said the staff in a first statement. Shortly after, it issued a second statement in which it announced that three more soldiers had been killed as well as six maimed, without giving details of the circumstances. "May God grant peace to our martyred soldiers in Afrin, all my condolences to their loved ones," front man for the The day's toll brings the number of Ankara considers the YPG a "terrorist" organization closely linked to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), a group that has been leading a bloody guerrilla war on However, nothing needs reforming like other people's bad habits... the YPG is supported by the United States and have been spearheading the international coalition fight against 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.... (ISIS) group in Syria. The situation was complicated further 10 days ago following the deployment of pro-regime elements in the enclave of Afrin, with observers warning of an increased risk of collision between the forces of Ankara and Damascus. On Monday, Turkey deployed some 600 members of the police and gendarmerie special forces in the Afrin region, indicating it was preparing for urban fighting. The ..The purposes of a truce are twofold: 1.) bring up more arms, ammunition, and reinforcements; and 2.) get the enemy to relax his vigilance. A truceis not the same thing as a ceasefire, and a ceasefiredoesn't mean you have to stop shooting... , called for by the UN Security Council in Syria, with Ankara saying the UN resolution did not concern its operation. The International Committee of the Red Thingy said a humanitarian aid  convoy entered the Afrin region on Thursday for the first time since the start of the According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (OSDH), 141 civilians, including 27 children, have died since the beginning of the Posted by: Fred 2018-03-02 |
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