[Rudaw] A week after the commander of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) was the target of a suspected Ottoman Turkish dronezap in Sulaimani, another strike killed a senior SDF member in northeast Syria (Rojava) early Friday morning, according a conflict monitor.
A Ottoman Turkish drone targeted a car in Qamishli near the border with The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
, local media ANHA reported with a photograph of a mangled car.
ANHA did not report any casualties, but according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights an unnamed SDF commander was killed and his escort was injured and is being treated in hospital.
The SDF have not immediately commented on the reports.
According to the Observatory, this is the eleventh Ottoman Turkish dronezap against Rojava this year, killing twelve people, including five civilians.
Turkey accuses the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), the backbone of the SDF, of being the Syrian wing of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), an gang struggling for Kurdish rights in Turkey and named a terror group by Ankara. The YPG denies the charge.
Last week, a dronezap targeted a convoy of American military personnel and SDF General Commander Mazloum Abdi near Sulaimani airport in the Kurdistan Region. The drone "struck more than 100 meters from the convoy," US Air Force Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder said in a press briefing on Thursday. US Central Command (CENTCOM) is investigating.
Abdi and Iraqi officials have blamed Turkey, which has not publicly commented on the incident. Abdi has been the target of multiple attempts on his life by Turkey, he told Al Monitor last week.
The SDF and US military have been partners in the war against the 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...
(ISIS). "We have a longstanding relationship with them. They are not the PKK," Ryder said in the press briefing. 
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