Follow up to this tweet from yesterday.
[AlAhram] The Monday night festivities near the town of Ein Issa were triggered by an attack by ...Qatar's satrapy in Asia Minor...
-backed button men on SDF positions
Clashes between Kurdish fighters and Turkey-backed opposition button men in northern Syria left at least 11 fighters dead in some of the most intense fighting in weeks between the two sides, an opposition war monitor and a Kurdish front man said Tuesday.
Exchange of fire and shelling between the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces and Turkey-backed opposition button men who identify as the Syrian National Army have not been uncommon since
The Monday night festivities near the town of Ein Issa were triggered by an attack by Turkey-backed button men on SDF positions, according to the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition war monitor. The Observatory said Turkey-backed fighters lost 11 button men in the battle and an unknown number of SDF fighters were also killed or maimed.
An SDF front man who goes by the name of Mervan Qamishlo confirmed the festivities, saying that the group's fighters were repelling a Turkey-backed attack. He did not comment on how many SDF button men were killed.
A front man for the Turkey-backed fighters did not respond to requests for comment.
Turkey says Kurdish fighters in Syria are linked to the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, that has led a decades-long insurgency in Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeast region and is considered a terrorist organization by Turkey, the United States and the European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
The U.S.-backed SDF played a major role in defeating 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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
group in Syria that lost its last sliver of land in March last year. The SDF is holding thousands of IS snuffies in jails it runs.