Thaer and the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which relies on a network of activists on the ground, said the three were civilians but their identities remained unknown.
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ISIS has also destroyed numerous ancient Palmyra’s Roman-era relics, including the magnificent Temple of Bel and the iconic Arch of Triumph.
In a statement released on Sunday, the YPG stated that Turkish forces had attacked its positions at the border of Tal Abyad (known to Kurds as Gire Spi) on Saturday evening and on Sunday morning.
Violence between Kurds fighters and Turkish forces will not decline, as Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said that Turkey is determined not to allow any Kurds enter the western part of the Euphrates River.
Two policemen who died while storming a suspected Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group cell in a city in southeast Turkey were killed by a suicide bomber, Turkish authorities said on Tuesday. We’ll hit them if they do.’ And we did hit them twice.
Yet, Turkey regards the PYD as the Syrian offshoot of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) which has been fighting for more Kurdish autonomy in the southeastern areas of the country since 1984.
“Turkey has drawn its red line as the west of Euphrates and this incident is in line with that warning”, a Turkish government official told Reuters, also without specifying a date for the incident.
He said Bashar al-Assad would control all of Syria today if the formula under discussion were to be developed further, and added: “It can not go further, because Turkey can not leave the fate of its 911-kilometer border to other countries”.
He says ISIS, al Qaeda, and the Taliban are reinventing themselves, joining forces, and drawing funds and support from outside as they take advantage of weaknesses in Afghan forces following the end of the U.S.-led worldwide combat mission past year.
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On October 10, twin blasts targeted activists who had convened outside Ankara’s main train station for a peace rally organized by leftist and pro-Kurdish opposition groups.
