"Our forces eliminated nine Ottoman Turkish occupation mercenaries and injured eleven others during legitimate response operations targeted [at] the Ottoman Turkish occupation bases in the village of al-Hoshriya in the countryside of Manbij and in the countryside of Deir Hafer," the SDF wrote in a statement.
The SDF said it also "conducted an operation in the village of Atshana, south of Manbij, targeting a gathering of vehicles and personnel belonging to the Ottoman Turkish occupation’s mercenaries. However,
alcohol has never solved anybody's problems. But then, neither has milk...
the number of casualties in this operation could not be confirmed."
For more than a month,
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund...
and the Syrian militia groups it supports, who call themselves the Syrian National Army (SNA), have carried out intense attacks on SDF-held areas near Manbij, including Tishreen Dam and Qere Qozaq bridge on the Euphrates River.
Taking control of the dam could help Ankara and the SNA easily advance to other parts of Kurdish-held northeast Syria (Rojava).
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that Turkey carried out
...KABOOM!...
s and shelling around the dam and Manbij on Thursday.
Turkey considers Kurdish forces in northern Syria to be a front for the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and has threatened to carry out a military offensive against them.
While battling the SNA and Turkey, the SDF is also engaged in discussions with the new leadership in Damascus.
Earlier this month, Syria’s de facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa said the new Syrian army would include the SDF, days after he met with SDF chief Mazloum Abdi to discuss the future of the Kurdish-led force and the status of Rojava. Abdi has expressed readiness to integrate his force into Syria’s new security apparatus if both sides agree on a formula.
SDF says Tishreen Dam civilian death toll risen to 20
[Rudaw] The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said on Wednesday that the recent attacks by militia groups on civilians protesting at the Tishreen Dam in northern Syria have killed at least 20 people and injured over 120 others.
SDF has accused
...a NATO...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all....
member, but not the most reliable...
and the militia groups it supports, who call themselves the Syrian National Army (SNA), of carrying out attacks on the crucial Tishreen Dam near Manbij city. Hundreds of civilians have travelled from other SDF-held areas in northeast Syria (Rojava) to the dam to form a human shield but they have come under several drone attacks.
"The attacks on the Dam... have resulted in the martyrdom of more than 20 civilians and injured over 120 others," said the SDF in a statement on Wednesday, adding that Ottoman Turkish-made drones like Bayraktar and Akinci were used in the bombardments.
The takeover of the dam could help Ankara and the SNA to easily advance to other parts of Rojava.
Tishreen Dam sits on the Euphrates River in northern Syria, upstream from scores of towns and villages as well as urban centres like Raqqa. It provides electricity to much of Rojava.
There is apparently another dam downstream of Tishreen, if I understand correctly, so if Turkey damages or destroys it as they seem to be working toward it would probably only be extremely damaging instead of totally destructive — but Rantburg’s civil engineers would know what I am only guessing at.
Rojava’s environmental authority warned on Monday that a collapse of the dam would result in an "environmental disaster" that would affect hundreds of thousands and cut electricity access amid turban attacks. Related:
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