Ankara, Washington’s NATO ally, continued launching airstrikes in northeast Syria on Monday against US-backed Kurdish militias.
According to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, at least 20 people were killed and dozens more were wounded.
Turkey’s latest air campaign against the armed Kurdish groups in US-occupied Syria, as well as northern Iraq, began on Thursday. It was precipitated by a recent suicide bombing which targeted the Turkish Interior Ministry.
The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) claimed credit for the attack, both Ankara and Washington have deemed the group a terrorist organization.
Turkey insists the suicide bombers entered the country by way of Syria, although the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) denies this is the case.
The SDF, Washington’s proxy in its years-long illegal occupation of roughly a third of Syria, is dominated by the Kurdish YPG which Ankara sees as ancillary to the PKK.
The US has about 900 troops in northeast Syria, controlling most of the country’s oil and wheat resources as an extension of Washington’s economic war against Damascus. Additionally, thousands of Turkish troops are occupying areas in northern Syria.
Monday’s strikes hit an SDF training center in Al-Malikiyah, a small city in the northern countryside of Al Hasakah province.
The SDF stated “a number of our forces were killed and others wounded.” On Friday, Ankara claimed to have bombed 30 sites in Syria used by the PKK. Nearly 60 Kurdish militants were killed in overnight assaults on Saturday, according to Turkey’s Defense Ministry.
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“Turkey’s National Intelligence Agency carried out strikes in Syria against Kurdish militant targets after a bomb attack in Ankara last weekend, a Turkish security source said on Thursday.
…Hasakah is in northeastern Syria and the mainly Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) [Turkish Enemy] is the spearhead of the main ally of the U.S…”
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Source:Libertarian Institute
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