"The Ottoman Turkish occupation has continued to exploit the prevailing conditions in Syria. This includes the establishment of new occupation bases within Syrian territory, notably two new bases in Manbij and west of the Euphrates River," the SDF said in a statement.
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
has not confirmed the existence of the bases.
In the statement, the Kurdish-led force also said they carried out an operation that "resulted in the destruction of two portable radar systems, a radar-jamming system, and an armored vehicle" belonging to Ankara near Qere Qozaq bridge, south of the symbolic Kurdish city of Kobane.
The conflict in northern Syria intensified late last month when Ottoman Turkish-backed Syrian National Army (SNA) gunnies launched an operation against Kurdish forces, taking control of the northwestern Shahba region and Manbij in succession. The SDF launched a counterattack last week, claiming to have regained control of several villages near Manbij.
The SNA has sent scores of troops to strike the crucial Tishreen Dam on the Euphrates River and seize it from Kurdish forces. They are also threatening Kobane, where Kurdish fighters of the People’s Protection Units (YPG) with US backing famously repelled a brutal 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....
(ISIS) offensive in January 2015.
But Ankara considers these Kurdish fighters as terrorists. It accuses the YPG of being the Syrian front for the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which has been engaged in a 40-year-long conflict with the Ottoman Turkish state.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britannia-based war monitor, reported that 11 people were killed on Monday in festivities between the SDF and SNA as the Kurdish-led force infiltrated the outer neighborhoods of Manbij city.
On Monday, Turkey claimed it killed two YPG fighters in an
...KABOOM!...
in northern Syria.