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2025-01-07 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
SDF says thwarted SNA attacks on crucial Euphrates dam
[Rudaw] The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on Saturday night said it continued thwarting attacks by Syrian National Army (SNA) turbans on the crucial Tishreen Dam on the Euphrates River, with attacks in northern Syria threatening key Kurdish-held territories.

"Our forces thwarted all attacks by the Ottoman Turkish occupation and its mercenaries, supported by Ottoman Turkish warplanes and drones, on areas east and south of Manbij and north of Tishreen Dam, inflicting dozens of deaths and injuries," said SDF spokesperson Farhad Shami on X.

Kurdish forces in northern Syria are under intensified attacks by The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...a NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis....
member, but not the most reliable...

and Ottoman Turkish-backed SNA bully boys, who have taken the strategic towns of Tal Rifaat and Manbij since late November.

Clashes are ongoing, especially near Tishreen Dam and Qere Qozaq bridge on the Euphrates River that leads to the symbolic Kurdish city of Kobane on the Ottoman Turkish border. The SDF has claimed to have repelled dozens of SNA attacks, saying in a Friday statement that it killed over 70 turbans and injured numerous others.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britannia-based war monitor, said on Sunday that the ongoing "violent mostly peaceful" festivities have killed 15 SNA members.

Four SDF members were also killed in a Ottoman Turkish dronezap near the dam, according to the Observatory.
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