Has the new war started? Brave attack by Kurdish rebels against Attila’s soldiers: they struck a Turkish military base in northern Syria

Kurdish fighters set off on Thursday evening A missile attack on a Turkish military base in northern Syria injured five police officers and three soldiers, according to information reported by the Turkish news agency (DHA) and reported by Reuters.

The attack occurred on a Turkish base on the outskirts of the city of Dabiq, about 10 kilometers from the border with Turkey. The injured were transferred to a hospital in Türkiye, according to the Dubai Health Authority.

The Turkish Ministry of Defense later announced that the Turkish Armed Forces launched air strikes on Kurdish militia positions in northern Syria.

Turkey has been carrying out strikes against PKK positions in northern Iraq since Sunday, in response to the attack that occurred on the same day in Ankara, which led to the injury of two policemen, and which Turkey claimed responsibility for. Kurdistan workers’ party.

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan claimed that the attackers had received training in Syria, and threatened retaliation against Kurdish fighters in Syria, whom Turkey accuses of being linked to the PKK.

On Wednesday, the leader of the People’s Protection Units, Mazloum Abdi, denied these accusations and said, “Turkey is looking for pretexts to legitimize its ongoing attacks against our region and launch a new military attack.”

The Kurdish Democratic Union Party and its military wing, the People’s Protection Units, stressed in a statement that “the Turkish minister’s statements amount to a declaration of war.”

The party called on the international anti-jihadist coalition to “take a stand” and stand by the Syrian Kurds.

while: The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and a source in the local security forces said that at least eight people were killed yesterday by Turkish drone fire in the Kurdish-controlled area in northeastern Syria, following Ankara’s threats against Kurdish military installations in Syria and Iraq.

A Turkish Ministry of Defense official said yesterday that a ground operation in Syria is one of the options Turkey is considering.

The security source told Reuters that two people were killed in a strike on a car near a military facility, and six others were killed in a subsequent strike on a military site near the town of Amuda.

Yesterday, Turkey announced that all Kurdish militant facilities in Syria and Iraq are legitimate targets, after concluding that the perpetrators of the bombing that occurred last Sunday in front of government buildings in Ankara came from Syria.

He added, “Our only goal is to eliminate terrorist organizations that pose a threat to Turkey. A Turkish Ministry of Defense official said today that the ground operation is one of the options to eliminate this threat, but it is not the only option for us.”

The Syrian Democratic Forces, the US-backed force dominated by the Syrian Kurdish militia YPG, which led the campaign against the Islamic State, has blocked the passage of suicide bombers from territory it controls.

The head of the Syrian Democratic Forces, Mazloum Abdi, said yesterday, Wednesday, in a post on the social media platform

Alaa El-Din Al-Ali, an aid worker who runs a camp for displaced people in northeastern Syria, said aid groups “stopped their work and left” after an airstrike near the camp.

Information via APE-MPE from Reuters
Istanbul, Türkiye – Beirut, Lebanon

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