The Afrin Liberation Forces (ALF) claimed on August 2 that its units killed three Turkish service members in a recent special operation in the occupied area of Afrin.
“Our forces continue to carry out military operations against the soldiers of the Turkish occupation army and their mercenaries in Afrin and its surrounding, causing more dead and wounded in their ranks,” a statement by the Kurdish guerrilla group reads.
A video of the operation, which took place on July 31, shows ALF fighters launching three anti-tank guided missiles (ATGMs) at two fortified positions and a battle tank of the Turkish Armed Forces in the village of Kimara in southern Afrin.
While the video shows direct hits, it remains unclear if any Turkish soldiers were indeed killed or injured in the ALF’s operation. Turkey’s Ministry of National Defence has not commented on these claims, so far.
In the last few months, Afrin witnessed increasing attacks by the ALF and other Kurdish guerrilla groups. Kurdish fighters also started to use more advance weapons such as ATGMs, armed drones and sniper rifles equipped with thermal sights.
Let one bastard kill another. Courtesy of US tax payer…US sponsored missiles fly from one US “allay” to another… They fly as symbol of US global impotence to impose themselves as main dominant force anywhere in the world.
Kurd’s were genociding people 500 years before American was ever a country. The Turks have been at war with everyone in history. Iraq(Babylon) Egypt, Persia(Iran) Kurd’s, Christians Jews on and on. I assure you all of these ongoing conflicts were ongoing before America ever even existed.
Turks are the masters of genocide. Incidentally, arabs arent any better. Many are the civilisations destroyed, genocided by turks and arabs. They have been at it for over a millennium and are the ultimate barbarians.
Good ,roasted roaches. :D
For the last 3 months both the SAA and the Kurds have been escalating hostilities against the Turks and their proxies, and coincidently for the last 3 months now the Turks haven’t been releasing their official casualty figures either, I wonder why. 159 KIA up until May and then nothing, are they hiding the fact that numbers nearly doubled in just the last 3 months, maybe. I’d like to know what the real official number is now, because I’m betting it’s way more than 159. The wiki page will have to add a new column for the Turkish casualties caused by the SAA too now, as well as the YPG, ISIS, SDF, and Russian columns, they’ll have to have one for the SAA too, since the SAA have earned their right to be on the list too now.
As for Shaba region, observers observe an increase in joined actions between SAA and SDF vs islamists. Is this a precursor to wider cooperation?
According to many reliable news outlets and their sources, the Kurds and the SAA have been cooperating together since the Turks first invaded Afrin, and by the time Trump had announced the withdrawal of US troops, even mainstream media was reporting that the Kurdish political coalition had began to negotiate with the Syrian government. According to many Kurdish msm sources, the Kurds aren’t just abandoning the SDF to join the ALF, they’re also donning SAA uniforms and serving incognito in government controlled areas of Hama and Aleppo, and also making preparations for an upcoming operation against the Turks, in a pre negotiated deal I might add. I’ve been reading those reports for over 12 months now, and for most of the time wasn’t sure what to make of them, but recently they’ve gained much credence with me. So yes I do thint current activities are a precursor for increased cooperation between the ALF and the SAA, but no cooperation between any official Kurdish groups like the SDF and the SAA. And even if all reports are wrong and there is no real cooperation between the SAA and the ALF, they must be using intel on each others actions to their advantage, and cooperating on a “take advantage of any situation provided by any party” level, which is forcing the Turks to face two open battle fronts now, suiting both the SAA and the ALF.
The Kurds have been increasing hostilities against the Turks for 12 months or more. The SAA have been increasing hostilities against the Turks for 3 or more months now, even the Russians too to some extent on some occasions, but not always. And the US shipped in 1500 trucks of goodies for the SDF. And Turkish newspapers keep quoting Erdogan saying he still wants a safe zone and doesn’t care what the US thinks about him creating one on their [illegally held] territory. And just over the last few weeks Erdogan’s sent tens of thousands of soldiers to the southern Turkish border, all the way along the border from east to west.
Something’s happening that we don’t know about, maybe it’s the upcoming cooperative assault by the combined SAA and ALF forces the Kurdish media keep telling us about, maybe it’s going to become more than just a unsubstantiated story soon.