Posted on 06/05/2017 10:48:57 AM PDT by Texas Fossil
Kurdish citizens in Serekaniye town, northeast Syria, bidding farewell to several YPG fighters who were killed in clashes with ISIS. Photo: ARA News
Kurdish leadership of the People’s Protection Units (YPG) announced on Sunday the death of 111 of its fighters during offensives by the Turkish Army and Turkey-backed Islamist groups in northern Syria.
According to the YPG media office, the Turkish Army and allied Islamist rebels launched more than 80 attacks on Kurdish areas held by the YPG in May.
“Turkey’s military used heavy artillery and mortar shells in its offensives against the YPG-held areas in Rojava-Northern Syria,” YPG officer Habun Osman told ARA News.
The Kurdish forces responded to 51 attacks in May, killing two Turkish soldiers and 20 pro-Turkey Syrian fighters, beside wounding at least eight fighters.
One of the main Turkey-backed groups that have been attacking the Kurds in Syria is the Islamic Movement of Ahrar al-Sham, which has recently stepped up its attacks on YPG-held areas in Afrin district in northwestern Aleppo.
The recent Turkey-led attacks have also caused dozens of civilian casualties among the Kurds in Rojava, according to human rights activists.
The YPG also revealed that their headquarters in the Shaddadi town in northeastern Syria was exposed to a ISIS-led twin car bomb attacks last week. The targeted building was a security office of the Kurdish Women’s Protection Units (YPJ). “The terrorist attack led to the death of eight YPJ female fighters and the injury of several others,” it said.
The YPG is a leading faction within the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), an alliance that has been engaged in heavy fighting against ISIS and other radical groups in northern Syria for years.
It is time to end ISIS. These unneeded attack in the middle of battle with the Great Evil called ISIS, will be remembered.
Not good news, but maybe inevitable.
The Kurds are but one small group fighting the resistance.
I don’t think the Kurds have much land or territory to call their own. There is Kurdistan in the north of Iraq. There are about 28 million of them in that area. Not many supporting allies in that area.
Thanks for posting. BUMP!
There is no Kirdish Lands. It is all autonomous zones where that exists.
Turkey kills them at will wherever they think they want to.
100% of battle against ISIS in Syria is SDF. Majority of SDF is Syrian Kurds. (minority in Raqqa battle only)
They are great allies, our soldiers know this.
They’re not “but one small group” — they are the foremost armed opposition on the ground in Syria against ISIS. Turkey is screwing up our war on ISIS, but Erdogan cares only about his war on the Kurds.
Turkey needs to be neutered. The Kurds along with Israel are our greatest allies in that region.
The Kurds were the one faction who refused to run in the fight against ISIS in the early days. When the Arab Iraqis ran like scared rabbits whenever challenged, the Kurds stood in the gap.
The Kurds are the most effective fighters against ISIS. They do not really want to overthrow Assad which is a problem for the people who want to get rid of him. The Turks have been attacking the Kurds and have been supporting ISIS for years (purchasing their oil). This conflict was shaped by megalomaniacs like Winston Churchill who could redraw borders with a few matchsticks. Millions died but they wrote the history books and are considered heroes.
I was wondering about “borders” and thought, wow, when Jesus rules He’s going to know where and when everyone lived! LOL
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