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| Jihadist militants attack Kurdish forces in northwest Syria |
| 2017-06-16 |
| [ALMASDARNEWS] Supported by ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... ’s military, Syrian Islamist groups launched on Wednesday an offensive against Kurdish villages in the district of Afrin, northwest of Aleppo province. Islamist Death Eaters of Ahrar al-Sham ...a Syria jihadi group made up of Islamists and salafists, not that there's that much difference, formed into a brigade. They make up the main element of the Islamic Front but they don't profess adoration of al-Qaeda and they've been fighting (mainly for survival) against the Islamic State. Their leadership was wiped out at a single blow by a suicide kaboom at a crowded basement meeting in September, 2014... and Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (al-Qaeda affiliated group previously known as al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... Front) attacked the villages of Basoufan and Bashmere in the Sherawa area of Afrin. The radical groups shelled the two villages with dozens of mortar shells, followed by Turkish artillery bombardment on the same villages. "The shelling led to the destruction of several residential buildings, causing the death and injury of dozens of civilians," a local media activist told ARA News. Afrin district, also known as Efrîn, is held by the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG). The bombardment was reportedly launched from the nearby Samaan citadel (Saint Simon Citadel), that has been recently taken by Turkey-backed Islamist groups as a base for their operations against the YPG in Aleppo province. It was not immediately clear how many people were killed in the bombardment. In the meantime, local rescue teams continued to search for victims under the rubble. |
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