Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
The Scourge of Hama...
, Kurdish sources and a monitoring group said, breaking a longstanding tacit agreement between the two sides to focus on other enemies in a complex civil war.
In Syria's predominantly Kurdish northeast, Assad's forces and Kurdish militia, mainly the Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG), have for the most part coexisted without clashing, focusing their firepower on the 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....
krazed killer group. However,
a clean conscience makes a soft pillow...
violence broke out when army soldiers and allied Death Eaters took control of buildings in an area that both sides had agreed would stay demilitarised, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said.
"There has been some serious fighting today. The PYD (the political wing of the YPG) nabbed
You have the right to remain silent...
10 soldiers and Baath party gunnies," Observatory head Rami Abdulrahman told Rooters. "There is now fighting in many areas of Hassakeh."
| An Nahar adds: |
Four regime forces and a Kurdish fighter had been killed so far, as well as a woman in regime shelling of an area controlled by the Kurdish People's Protection Units.
The festivities began after Kurdish fighters detained around 10 regime forces they accused of seizing part of a demilitarized zone.
Under a deal agreed last year, Kurdish forces control around 30 percent of the city's Kurdish and mixed Kurdish-Arab districts, with regime forces controlling most of the city's majority-Arab districts.