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2019-02-22 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
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Twin bomb blasts strike Kobane and Afrin
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[Rudaw] Five Kurdish fighters of the People’s Protection Units (YPG) in the northern Syrian city of Kobane were killed on Thursday when a bomb went kaboom! near their base, according to a war monitor. Several civilians were also killed and injured in a separate blast in the northwestern city of Afrin.
Another YPG fighter was reportedly injured in the Kobane blast. The city, which was liberated from the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're 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 the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
jihadist group (ISIS) in 2016, lies close the Ottoman Turkish border.
No one has grabbed credit for the attack.
The YPG, which makes up the backbone of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), has spearheaded the ground offensive against ISIS. It is on the brink of liberating the last speck of territory controlled by the jihadists in Deir ez-Zor.
A separate attack earlier on Thursday saw a boom-mobile strike central Afrin shortly after a parade of Ottoman Turkish-backed gangs through the northwest Syrian city, according to a war monitor.
At least 10 people, including children, were maimed in the blast near Dersim Hospital in the Villat Street, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports.
The opposition-linked White Helmets said two non-combatants were killed, including a little girl, and 22 were maimed.
A video has emerged on social media purportedly showing the aftermath of the blast. Rudaw English has not been able to verify the footage.
It was not immediately clear who was responsible for laying the explosives.
Ottoman Turkish armed forces and their Syrian proxies took over Afrin in March 2018, forcing the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) to withdraw.
Ankara believes the YPG poses a threat to its national security, accusing it of fostering ties with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).
’Operation Olive Branch’ lasted several weeks and saw thousands of ethnic Kurds displaced from the canton in northern Aleppo province. Evidence has emerged of abuses, looting, and ethnic cleansing perpetrated against Kurdish residents by the Ottoman Turkish-backed militias.
The National Army ‐ a Ottoman Turkish-led amalgamation of Syrian opposition groups ‐ issued a statement on February 20 announcing a new security campaign ostensibly targeting drug pushers and funders of terrorism, the Observatory reports.
"To our people in the Syrian North, as a completion of the peace campaign launched by the Syrian National Army achieving its first goal of arresting the corrupted and rebel commanders and groups, a new phase of the campaign starts today," the statement, seen by the Observatory, states.
"It is going to work on achieving the second goal through prosecuting and arresting the drug pushers in order to stop their criminality by dealing with their peers of the gangs of the PKK and of the criminal regime in the occupied areas," the statement added.
The SDF has pledged to prioritize the "liberation" of Afrin from Ottoman Turkish-backed forces once ISIS has been defeated.
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire....
has threatened to send its forces east from Afrin to push Kurdish forces back from its southern border.
Kurdish forces fear Ankara will launch such an offensive if US troops stationed in northeast Syria withdraw. 
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