In the Turkey’s southeastern city of Diyarbakir late on August 27, PKK fighters launched four rocket attacks on a military air base used by both Turkish and US forces.
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A Turkish soldier was killed and three others were injured in a rocket attack by the US -sponsored YPG terror group, launched against two Turkish tanks taking part in the military offensive against DAESH in the northern Syrian town of Jarablus.
Turkey claimed it had “neutralized” 25 Kurdish fighters in airstrikes across the Syrian border Sunday, the latest attack in Turkey’s stepped-up campaign to retake towns from Kurdish rebels.
Turkish air strikes in north Syria killed 25 Kurdish militants, the Turkish military said on Sunday, the fifth day of a cross-border campaign launched alongside its Syrian rebel allies that aims to strike at Kurdish forces and Islamic State. “Turkish sources say he was killed in an attack by [Kurdish] YPG fighters”.
The Observatory said the bombardment targeted an area south of the former Islamic State group stronghold of Jarabulus, which Turkish-led forces captured on the first day of the incursion.
The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that at least 20 civilians were killed in Turkish strikes on the village, and that a total of 70 people were either killed or injured.
Turkey wants to stop Kurdish forces taking control of a line of territory along its southern border, fearing it could be used to support Kurdish militant group the PKK.
“Turkey has not and will not surrender to any terrorist organizations or terror methods”, he said.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish President, has made it clear that the offensive is also aimed at reversing recent Kurdish territorial gains and has demanded the SDF withdraw east of the Euphrates River.
Erdogan then turned his focus to the main Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party, known as the PYD.
Operations against DAESH terrorist group in northern Syria continue.
The borderlands region has been controlled by militias aligned to the Kurdish-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
On Saturday, clashes erupted for the first time between Turkish forces backed by tanks and pro-Kurdish fighters in the town of Al-Amarneh, also south of Jarablus.
According to AP, citing own sources the total number of villages gained by Syrian rebels and Turkish forces stands at four.
Russia, which backs Assad’s forces, has endorsed the proposal.
Military officials said PYD had launched the rockets at two Turkish tanks operating 7 kilometers south of Jarabulus.
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On Saturday, the last rebel fighters were evacuated from the town of Daraya just outside Damascus, under a deal that followed a brutal 4-year government siege.
