According to London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights Turkish forces joined ISIS in its assault on Kurdish town and continue to shell Kurdish positions along the border in Tal Abyad.
Kurdish sources also said that the US-led coalition fighter jets are targeting Turkish-ISIS terrorists around the border area and already taken out dozens of them.
Clashes are continuing on many fronts according to Kurdish YPG media center.
[kurdishdailynews.org]
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Islamic State attacks Kurdish-held town on Turkish border...
ReplyDeleteIslamic State militants launched an assault on a Kurdish-controlled town on Syria's border with Turkey on Saturday, prompting air strikes by the U.S.-led coalition to try to drive them back.
The hardline Sunni fighters attacked Tel Abyad, which is controlled by the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia, and the nearby town of Suluk in the early hours of Saturday, YPG spokesman Redur Xelil and Turkish security sources told Reuters.
Coalition war planes carried out 10 air strikes to try to repel the assault, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported. It said at least 45 Islamic State militants and 20 Kurdish militia fighters had been killed.
The attack was launched hours after a "cessation of hostilities" came into effect under a U.S.-Russian plan, although the temporary truce does not apply to Islamic State and al Qaeda affiliate the Nusra Front, meaning the Syrian government, Moscow and the coalition reserve the right to strike them. The truce appeared largely to be holding across much of Syria......reuters.com
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Bei einem Angriff der Terrormiliz „Islamischer Staat“ (IS) auf kurdischen Einheiten im Norden Syriens sind mehr als 60 Menschen ums Leben gekommen...
ReplyDeleteDie Extremisten hätten am Samstag eine Offensive auf die Stadt Tel Abjad an der Grenze zur Türkei begonnen, erklärte die Syrische Beobachtungsstelle für Menschenrechte. Dabei seien mindestens 45 IS-Anhänger sowie 20 Kämpfer der Kurdenmiliz YPG und ihrer Verbündeten getötet worden.
Die heftigen Gefechte gingen weiter. Zehn Luftangriffe der amerikanisch geführten internationalen Koalition hätten die Kurden unterstützt, erklärten die Menschenrechtsbeobachter. Bei der YPG handelt es sich um den bewaffneten syrischen Ableger der verbotenen türkischen Kurdischen Arbeiterpartei PKK. Sie beherrscht in Nordsyrien große Gebiete. Die YPG ist ein wichtiger Verbündeter des Westens im Kampf gegen den IS.......faz.net
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