...KABOOM!...
near the symbolic Kurdish city of Kobane in northern Syria.
"The martyrdom toll from a Ottoman Turkish airstrike between the villages of Qomji and Barkh Botan, south of Kobane, has risen to nine civilians from the same family, with two additional family members maimed," the SDF said in a statement.
The Ottoman Turkish airstrike on Sunday night "targeted a family engaged in agricultural work," according to the SDF.
The strike came after the SDF last week reported "intensified attacks" with
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
and Ottoman Turkish-backed Syrian National Army (SNA) Lions of Islam on Tishreen Dam and Qere Qozaq bridge in northern Syria.
Attacks on the strategic sites — controlled by the SDF — have been ongoing since a coalition of rebels led by the Islamist Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else
...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...
(HTS) toppled Bashir
Pencilneckal-Assad
Supressor of the Damascenes...
’s regime in December.
The SNA is also threatening Kobane, where Kurdish fighters of the People’s Protection Units (YPG) with US backing famously repelled a brutal 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
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
(ISIS) offensive in January 2015.
But Ankara considers these Kurdish fighters as terrorists. It claims that the YPG is the Syrian front for the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which has been engaged in a decades-long conflict with the Ottoman Turkish state.