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Oh, By The Way… Turkey Just Invaded Syria
2018-01-21
[Hot Air] It’s rather amazing how much news you can miss when the entire media machine is focused on something like the government shutdown. For just one minor example, did you know that Turkey invaded Syria yesterday? That probably sounds a bit dramatic (and to be honest, it wasn’t that much of an invasion) but it’s certainly accurate. Making good on President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s earlier promise, Turkey launched a blistering wave of air strikes on U.S.-backed Kurdish forces in Afrin province and crossed the border with troops and artillery. Details are sketchy, but at least for the moment the Kurds claim to have beaten back the attack.
Posted by:Besoeker

#20  Bonne nuit, guten Abend, lailah tov. We’ll have another article for you to post updates to at the midnight Eastern Time rollover.
Posted by: trailing wife   2018-01-21 23:06  

#19  Sounds good, TW.

Boa Noite.
Posted by: Bill Cleretle2363   2018-01-21 21:56  

#18  I find Twitter overwhelming, so I am very glad you are keeping track of that for us, my dear. No doubt some others among the Rantburgers will join you, now that you’ve shared your sources. :-)
Posted by: trailing wife   2018-01-21 21:17  

#17  HTTP://twitter.com/hashtag/ypg
Posted by: Bill Cleretle2363   2018-01-21 20:55  

#16  Correction HTTP://twitter.com/Yalda_so
Posted by: Bill Cleretle2363   2018-01-21 20:08  

#15  Thank you TW. I am watching Twitter feeds from Today's, a few are below:

HTTP://twitter.com/ypg - YPG Battle Maps and official statements

HTTP://twitter.com/americans4YPG - westerners in the region

HTTP://twitter.com/defenceunits - YPG guerrillas working against Turkish positions

HTTP://twitter.com/Yaldi_so - reporting from cellars and basements in Afrin with war going on all around the source
Posted by: Bill Cleretle2363   2018-01-21 20:06  

#14  Marvelous updates, Bill Cleretle2363, thank you. What is your source?
Posted by: trailing wife   2018-01-21 19:29  

#13  #12 Knock it off, Erdogan
Posted by: newc

and if he says "NO"?
Posted by: Frank G   2018-01-21 18:48  

#12  Knock it off, Erdogan
Posted by: newc   2018-01-21 18:31  

#11  Russian forces have retreated from Manbij as Turkey is expected to open a second front in that area tomorrow. Turkish soldiers have been killed at Afrin. YPG has warned Turkey that millions of Kurds in Turkey could rise up against Turkey.
Posted by: Bill Cleretle2363   2018-01-21 17:57  

#10  My comment at #6 meant dozens of FSA captured by the Kurds. YPG announced they had emerged from the earlier airstrikes and mortar fire intact and ready to fight the Turks, something they had been preparing years for. Other pro-Kurd Syrian groups have joined the Kurds and have contributed in stalling the FSA "Gangs" as the YPG calls them.
Posted by: Bill Cleretle2363   2018-01-21 17:30  

#9  Defending "Dreamers" is much more important than some skirmish by a NATO member in a country with Russian support. Oh, those irredentist movements!
Posted by: DooDahMan   2018-01-21 17:03  

#8  What YPG could use are Stingers.
Posted by: Zhang Fei   2018-01-21 17:00  

#7  Spotters near Turkish airforce bases are using social media and English to alert YPG of Turkish aircraft departing for bombing runs.
Posted by: Bill Cleretle2363   2018-01-21 16:46  

#6  FSA spearheaded the Afrin attacks for Turkey resulting in dozens being captured along with at least 8 armor. A British woman died in the conflict that is ongoing.
Posted by: Bill Cleretle2363   2018-01-21 16:41  

#5  I was thinking more of warfarin. Causing Recip some internal bleeding......
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2018-01-21 14:30  

#4  "Afrinâ„¢ - not just a nose spray"
Posted by: Frank G   2018-01-21 13:55  

#3  Scrub should be Afrin.

Not very pleased with software these days "correcting" your texts. Rather sh*ty technology.
Posted by: Bill Cleretle2363   2018-01-21 12:30  

#2  The official statement by the YPG is "Welcome to Scrub. We will now teach you a lesson."

YPG are using US AGMs to strike and destroy US M60A3, M60T and the German Leopard battle tanks used by the Turkish MIL.

The areas supposedly captured per Turkey are actually active battle fields per the YPG.
Posted by: Bill Cleretle2363   2018-01-21 12:29  

#1  ...Gonna be one of those weeks...


Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2018-01-21 12:28  

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