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2018-03-11 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Turkish-backed rebels advance on Kurdish-held Syrian town

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Posted by trailing wife 2018-03-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top
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#1 Kurdish media is reporting that even though Turk/Al Nusra (Al Qaeda Syria) is moving close to Afrin, YPG/YPJ fighters are popping up behind the enemy lines and inflicting large numbers of losses after many scenes of civilian deaths appeared in the media.

Firat News Agency claims approx. 450 invaders killed during the past 48 hours, over 750 killed by the YPG/YPJ forces during the past 4 days.

The YPG/YPJ guerrilla force is huge behind enemy lines. Numerous invasion vehicles have been destroyed during the past 4 days.

Posted by Ulaigum Ebbineng7056 2018-03-11 07:22|| 2018-03-11 07:22|| Front Page Top

#2 This indicates the progress wasade strictly by air strikes and artillary that leveled entore towns and killed or injured many civilians. But the invading ground forces may not be competent enough to maintan their territorial gains.

Posted by Omeger Gray6606 2018-03-11 07:53|| 2018-03-11 07:53|| Front Page Top

#3 Kurdish media is reporting

I assume that since you haven’t been doing your Afrin reports the twitter feeds are still silent, Ulaigum Ebbineng7056. Would you be so kind as to give us a round up from the news sites instead?

Posted by trailing wife 2018-03-11 17:58|| 2018-03-11 17:58|| Front Page Top

#4 TW,

Actually, the Twitter feeds are rather amazing. As Turk artillery and air munitions burst all around them in the main objective city of Afrin, old women are dancing and ululating every time a shell hits the ground in joyfull defiance of Erdogan. The old men blair Kurdish music over loud speekers.

In Europe and England Kurdish protesters are blocking and sitting on tracks of commuter trains to try to get the media and governments to do something. YPG/YPJ are popping up and fiercely fighting on the ground behind the lines. SDA and Turk soldiers are taking many more casualties and the angry SDA are taking video of brutal executions and posting them in retaliation.

While all of this is occurring 100s of Kurd civilians pass through the lines each day to come to die in Afrin city as human shields.

Posted by Ulaigum Ebbineng7056 2018-03-11 20:56|| 2018-03-11 20:56|| Front Page Top

#5 An amazing people, indeed, Ulaigum Ebbineng7056.

Posted by trailing wife 2018-03-11 23:46|| 2018-03-11 23:46|| Front Page Top

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