"One fellow heroic soldier fell martyr in festivities" as fighters from the People's Protection Units (YPG) militia sought to infiltrate the Afrin region, the ministry said.
Ankara sees the YPG as an extension of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which is waging an insurgency in
...Qatar's satrapy in Asia Minor...
Turkey and its Syrian proxies control several pockets of territory on Syria's side of the border following three military incursions since 2016 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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
group (IS) and the YPG.
In 2018,