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| Turkish army reportedly making advances toward Kobani |
| 2016-08-28 |
| [RUDAW.NET] A source close to the Syrian Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) reported Saturday evening that Turkish troops have been advancing toward the city of Kobani. The source, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... , said that the Turkish forces, using bulldozers, have been digging trenches near Kobani’s Mursheed Pnary gate. ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... crossed into Syria on Wednesday as part of an offensive with the Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... (FSA) to rout 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) Death Eaters from the town of Jarablus and eliminate "terrorists" on its border, referring to both ISIS and the YPG. Turkish border towns have been repeatedly shelled by ISIS in northern Syria. Earlier Saturday, the YPG announced that Turkish planes had bombarded its forces, while on the ground they had clashed with FSA forces backed by Turkey and with the Syrian Democratic forces (SDF). The YPG said in a tweet earlier Saturday that civilians had been killed and maimed in the Turkish In Derik and around Manbij, festivities took place between YPG and Turkish forces on Saturday. The YPG said that Turkish bombing of areas in Syrian Kurdistan, or Rojava, was ongoing. On Friday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that Turkish forces used heavy machinegun fire in the Afrin countryside, an area under the control of YPG. |
| Posted by:Fred |