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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Gunmen kill four Asayish members in Manbij: Monitor
2023-09-06
[Rudaw] At least four members of the internal security forces (Asayish) of the Kurdish administration in Syria were killed when unidentified button men attacked their patrol near Manbij in northern Syria, a war monitor reported on Tuesday as hostilities surge in the area.

The Asayish patrol was attacked on Monday midnight in a hit-and-run attack by unknown button men armed with machineguns in Hamir Labidah village, 15 kilometers south of Manbij city, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based war monitor said.

Four Asayish members were killed in the attack, the monitor said.

The attack comes amid a surge in hostilities in territories controlled by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in Syria, with Ottoman Turkish-backed Arab fighters launching attacks on Kurdish-controlled villages in Manbij and Arab tribal fighters clashing with the SDF in Syria’s eastern Deir ez-Zor province and northeast Syria’s (Rojava) Hasaka province.

On Monday, the SDF’s Manbij Military Council thwarted an attack by the Ottoman Turkish-backed Syrian National Army near the village of Arab Hassan, killing five fighters and injuring 15.

The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
 has long viewed strategic Manbij, located at a crossroads connecting Aleppo, Raqqa, and the Kurdish-administered northeast, as a key zone to launch its next military operation in northern Syria to seize it from Kurdish forces. Last year, 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...
 labeled the city and Tal Rifaat as Ankara’s next targets in order to complete its long-desired 30-kilometer "safe zone" along its southern border.
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