Over 700 civilians were kidnapped and 134 were maimed in
One hundred and forty eight SDF members died responding to
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
(ISIS) sleeper cells that remain active in the region, the report added.
Ankara often targets Rojava, killing and injuring civilians and security forces.
Rojava saw 47
Fifty-eight villages and three districts were the targets of direct bombardment. Zirgan district has seen an increase of suspected
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
has not yet commented on the report.
At least one person was injured in a
Rojava’s internal security forces (Asayish) have previously described Turkey’s offensives targeting northern Hasaka as "an attempt to displace the residents."
Hundreds of families have left Zirgan district as
...KABOOM!...
s and bombardment spark fear in the residents, a conflict monitor reported at the beginning of the year.
Turkey has conducted three military operations in northern Syria since 2016, two of them against Kurdish fighters who Ankara considers a branch of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and a threat to its national security. It has been threatening a new offensive against Kurdish forces in Rojava in recent months.