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Syrian Kurdish fighters kill 5 Turkish-backed opposition forces, say activists |
2023-07-11 |
[IsraelTimes] Violence in northern town of Afrin is the latest in a monthslong escalation between opposing groups in Syria and Iraq Syrian Kurdish fighters carried out an attack early Monday in northern Syria, killing at least five members of ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... -backed Syrian opposition forces, activists said. The attack south of the northern town of Afrin, which is held by the Turkey-backed forces, took place shortly after midnight on Sunday, according to the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Meanwhile, ...back at the shattered spaceship, Fffflirgoll the Arcturan slithered stealthily toward the control room, where the humans had barricaded themselves... Turkey’s Defense Ministry confirmed that two The violence is the latest in a monthslong escalation between Turkey and The Observatory, an opposition war monitor, said Monday’s attack was carried out by the Afrin Liberation Forces, a Kurdish faction allied with the main Kurdish militia in Syria known as the People’s Protection Units or YPG. The group has claimed scores of attacks against Syria-based opposition activist Taher al-Omar said the attack took place about 20 kilometers (12 miles) south of Afrin. According to al-Omar, five members of the Turkey-backed faction Failaq al-Sham were killed. The Observatory said six died, but different tolls are not uncommon in the immediate aftermath of such attacks. Afrin has been under the control of Turkey and its allied Syrian opposition fighters since 2018, following a Turkey-backed military operation that pushed Syrian Kurdish fighters and thousands of Kurdish residents from the area. Since then, the town and surrounding villages have been the site of attacks on Also Monday in northern Syria, Kurdish fighters fired several rockets at a The The violence comes a day after two explosions in northern Syria killed eight people, including three members of a Syrian Kurdish-led group in the town of Manbij. |
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