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Rantburg Exclusive: 2/19/2018 SDF Battle Field Combat Report, Afrin Canton, Syria

2018-02-20

1- Afrin: with the arrival of the vanguard of the public delegations to Afrin coming from Aleppo, the Turkish occupation army and the terrorist factions have began to shell the city center of Afrin by heavy artillery, the shelling is still ongoing until writing this report, where the shelling is focused on Tranda neighborhood in Afrin.

2- Raju: Raju township was a target of a brutal bombardment by the Turkish war-jets since yesterday at 3 pm until the midnight accompanied by artillery shelling.

Also, Khalilka village and its vicinity were arenas for fierce engagements between our forces and the Turkish occupation army and its terrorists factions (Daesh/Al-Nusra). The clashes started last night, where our forces confirmed the death of 7 enemy soldiers. Later, the clashes expanded to Hajika village accompanied by artillery shelling lasted to the midnight.

3- Sharra: last night at 7 pm, the Turkish occupation army and its terrorist factions had bombed Alika village by heavy artillery. The bombardment lasted to the midnight.

Since last night and even the moment of preparation of this report, the Turkish jets did not calm down, where Deir Sawan village down to Nabi Horri castle and Halobiyah village in addition to Maydanki village, were targets of the Turkish air strikes and artillery, coincided with the outbreak of fierce clashes between our forces and the invaders which was ongoing until writing this report.

4- Jinderes: the villages along the border were targets for the Turkish raids and artillery accompanied by heavy clashes between our forces and the terrorist invaders. The sporadic shelling is still ongoing until writing this report.

5- Mabatah: the Turkish invasion army and its terrorist allies (Daesh/Al-Nusra) shelled indiscriminately on the downtown of Mabatah and the surrounding villages. The bombardment is continuous until the preparation of this report.

6- Basutah: Basutah and the surrounding villages were exposed to a brutal bombardment by the Turkish invasion army and terrorist factions. The bombardment targeted the populated neighborhoods, which accordingly, several civilians got martyred and wounded including women and children.

SDF Media Center
19-Feb-2018

A thirteen year old child was killed by NATO member Turkey via heavy and indiscriminate artillery and air strikes against civilian areas. YPG had warned civilians two days ago to move out of those areas as if they anticipated an increase in indiscriminate bombing due to their frustration with Olive Branch.

Erdogan has responded to word that Syria may support the YPG in the Afrin Canton by warning Syria that they will be attacked if they do.

The street in front of the US Embassy in Turkey has been renamed Olive Branch.

The kind of insult so meaningful to the Byzantine mind of the Ottoman Turk, and seen as so childishly uninteresting by Americans.

Posted by:Ulaigum Ebbineng7056

#3 The kind of insult so meaningful to the Byzantine mind of the Ottoman Turk, and seen as so childishly uninteresting by Americans.

Nice.

Posted by: swksvolFF 2018-02-20 09:54

#2 Statement of Hediye Yusuf, Co-chair of the Council of the Federation of Northern Syria, given to InfoCenter Afrin Resistance

20 febrero, 2018
icafrin

EXCLUSIVE/IC Afrin Resistance – Afrin, 19.02.2018

“Untill now, the Syrian State keeps silent against the occupation of its territory. Before this current situation Turkey already occupied Syrian territory in Jerabulus, Bab and Ezaz. Against this occupation the Syrian state had given some very coward statements. The Syrian state hasn‘t played its role as a state that would defend its borders against occupation.
This is also the case for the agreement between Turkey, Russia, the [Syrian] Regime and Iran concerning Afrin. Turkey approached with the will to occupy the area of Afrin. Turkey`s plan was to occupy Afrin within 3 hours. That‘s what Turkey had announced, what Erdogan had anounced. First they had said 3 hours, then they said three days, then one week. Everybody was watching and kept silent. The Syrian state stayed silent against this as well.

The plan was based on the occupation of Afrin. But what happened instead was that the people of Afrin were starting an historical resistance. The people of Afrin stood up against the occupation. Today, the people of Afrin have been resisting for 31 days. They did not allow the occupation plan to reach its goal. The people as well as the fighters of YPG, YPJ and SDF have shown an historical resistance against the occupational attacks. With this the resistance foiled the calculations that were made [by Turkey] and made the plan of occupation fail. At the same time this resistance still continues.

Against this the Syrian state remained silent. Against the occupation attacks against this territory [in the region of Afrin] it remained silent. As we have already stated before, the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria is a part of a united Syria. So we had made clear that the Federation is a geographical federation and Northern Syria is a part of Syria.

Therefore our position has always been, if there is a possibility for a dialogue that helps to open the way for a democratic solution in Syria we would use this and support this. On the base of a federal system like we have announced in Northern Syria, we think that Northern Syria will play an important role in the democratic solution process for Syria: We are open for dialogues with the [Syrian] regime. The basis of any dialogue is to reach the aim of a democratic solution. Therefore, we had made these declarations already before. Now there is the current situation:

The resistance of Afrin is a historical resistance. It is the resistance of the century. It has created public attention and thwarts the plans that had been made before. At the same time all people of Syria know the existing reality of occupation. Therefore, now there is a dialogue between the military forces on the base that the Syrian Regime as a state gets involved inside the frame that it should play its role in preventing its ground from occupation. If these existing dialogues bring any results, then the Syrian army should keep with its tasks as a state in the meaning that it would protect the airspace over Syrian ground. But these are only dialogues. If it comes to a military agreement, there will be an official statement made by the YPG. Untill the YPG doesn‘t give an official statement, we can‘t say anything about if a contract has been made.

Apart from that, in the frame of this resistance and on a political ground, there is no dialogue with the Syrian regime. Therefore, for the future of Northern Syria and as we said already before, we are ready for dialogues. But to the present time there is no such discussion. There is nothing like the things that are being said such as handing over Afrin to the regime. These things are not true and have never been for discussion. What is existing right now is a dialogue for coming to a military agreement, so that the plan of occupation through the Turkish state will be thwarted. It is in that frame.“

Posted by: Ulaigum Ebbineng7056 2018-02-20 05:18

#1 After seeing a longer version of this video that would not post I could only find this shorter version on YouTube.

This is an ISIS groomed child soldier captured in Idlib, Syria who is confessing to having fought with ISIS for two years to an interrogator.

At the end of the video after answering the interrogators questions, the child asks as cool as a cucumber, "Are you going to shoot me?" at the end of this video. The longer version that I could not post from elsewhere has the interrogator responding, "Shoot him."

Posted by: Ulaigum Ebbineng7056 2018-02-20 00:54

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