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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
SDF says Turkish-backed groups aiming to launch more attacks
2020-12-02
[KURDISTAN24.NET] The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) media center on Sunday said Ottoman Turkish-backed groups have mobilized their forces and are instructing their military bases to launch attacks in northeastern Syria."Two kilometers away from the M4 International Highway, the mercenaries are instructing bases preparing to launch attacks," the SDF said in a statement.

"The Ottoman Turkish occupation army and its mercenaries have recently intensified their artillery shelling on the Ain Issa line and the villages of Tal Abyad (Giri Spi) countryside," it added.

According to the SDF, the center of Ain Issa town and its surroundings have been heavily bombed during the past three days, in which at least two children were reportedly maimed.

After The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
conducted a cross-border attack into northeastern Syria in October 2019, Russia and the US reached separate ceasefire deals with Ankara, which allowed Ottoman Turkish troops to control the area between Tal Abyad and Serekaniye (Ras al-Ain).

Although US President Donald Trump
...His ancestors didn't own any slaves...
initially decided last year to withdraw American forces from northeast Syria following a phone conversation with 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 in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...
, he was later convinced to keep troops in the northeast to prevent the oil fields from falling into the hands of Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
or the so-called 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....
As a result, there are still US troops in Hasakah and Deir al-Zor, which contain the majority of Syria’s oil resources even as the US withdrew from bases surrounding Kobani, Manbij, and Raqqa that were later taken over by the Russian military.

Despite the agreements, Ottoman Turkish-backed groups and the Ottoman Turkish army continue to target SDF-held areas periodically. In some cases, villagers living in Syrian-Ottoman Turkish border areas were killed in attacks by the Ottoman Turkish military and the rebel forces Ankara supports.

Charles Flynn, a Syria-based researcher at the Rojava Information Centre (RIC), told Kurdistan 24 that over the past week, "there have been constant military raids along the Tel Abyad and Serekaniye fronts, as well as exchanges of heavy weapons fire."
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