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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
SDF says downed alleged Turkish suicide drone in Hasaka
2022-12-12
[Rudaw] The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said on Sunday that an alleged Ottoman Turkish drone was downed while attempting to launch an attack on the town of Zirgan in northeast Syria's (Rojava) Hasaka province the night before amid an ongoing Ottoman Turkish aerial campaign.

"Our forces shot down a Ottoman Turkish suicide UAV while it was trying to attack the Zirgan town, causing complete destruction of the Ottoman Turkish suicide UAV," the SDF stated.

The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
launched its latest aerial campaign dubbed Operation Claw-Sword targeting Kurdish positions of the People’s Protection Units (YPG) and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in northern Syria and the Kurdistan Region on November 20. The operation has led to a barrage of dozens of drones and Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s targeting the SDF, which presents a danger to US personnel as they maintain a presence in the proximity of the area.

Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than there are in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really most important...
has warned that the aerial operation is a prelude to a looming ground offensive that Ankara aims to undertake in order to achieve its long-desired 30-kilometer "safe zone" it began creating along its southern border in recent years.

In a phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
on Sunday, Erdogan once again affirmed his desire to complete the 30-kilometer zone along Turkey’s southern border with Syria, according to state-owned Anadolu Agency.

US officials have repeatedly called for de-escalation in northern Syria, saying a potential operation would be detrimental to their efforts to fight the Islamic State
...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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(ISIS).
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