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SDF kills two Turkish-backed militants in Manbij: Monitor
2024-02-20
[Rudaw] At least two Ottoman Turkish-backed Death Eaters were killed during festivities with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) near the northern Syrian city of Manbij on Monday, a war monitor reported.

"Two members of the pro-The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
factions were killed and others were maimed after violent mostly peaceful festivities broke out with the forces of the Manbij Military Council... near al-Sayadah village in western Manbij countryside," said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), a Britannia-based war monitor.

The Manbij Military Council is a local Kurdish-led force affiliated with the SDF in Arab-majority Manbij. Security in Kurdish-controlled areas in north and northeast Syria is managed through military councils led by locals to maintain the delicate balance of the region and prevent Arab discontent.

The festivities come amid an increased surge of violence near Manbij between Kurdish-led forces and Ottoman Turkish-backed Death Eaters, according to SOHR

Turkey has long viewed strategic Manbij, located at a crossroads connecting Aleppo, Raqqa, and the Kurdish-administered northeast, as a key zone to launch its next military operation in northern Syria to seize from Kurdish forces.

In 2022, Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...
labeled the city and Tal Rifaat as Ankara’s next targets in order to complete its long-desired 30-kilometer "safe zone" along the southern border.

Turkey accuses the Kurdish forces of the People’s Protection Units (YPG), the backbone of the SDF, of being the Syrian front for the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).

Ankara has carried out three military operations against Kurdish forces in northern Syria since 2016, invading key towns near the border such as Afrin, Sari Kani (Ras al-Ain), and Gire Spi (Tal Abyad).
Related:
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