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| Ten killed in Turkish attack on Kurdish-held Syrian region |
| 2018-01-21 |
| [ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] "Seven non-combatants were killed, including a child, as well as two female fighters and one male fighter," said Birusk Hasakeh, front man for the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) in Afrin, adding that the child was an eight-year-old boy. The YPG’s political branch, the Democratic Union Party (PYD), said earlier on Saturday that 25 civilians had been maimed in the Ankara also said were casualties but were all Kurdish bad boys. Afrin, a hilly region that falls in Syria’s northern Aleppo province, is home to more than a million people including displaced families. ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... and allied Syrian rebels on Saturday began an air and ground operation, dubbed operation "Olive Branch", aimed at ousting the YPG from the Kurdish-majority pocket. The launch came despite warnings that the operation could be militarily tough against an already battle-hardened foe and complicate relations with both Washington and Moscow. Turkey vehemently opposes the YPG because of its links to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, which has waged an insurgency inside Turkey for three decades. |
| Posted by:Fred |