Turkish forces are seen at Mount Barsaya in northeast of Afrin, January 28, 2018 / Khalil Ashawi / Reuters
On February 8, four fighters of the Manbij Military Council, a faction of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), were wounded in an attack by the Turkish military, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The London-based monitoring group said that the fighters were wounded when the Turkish military targeted a military position of the SDF near the village of Tukhar, to the east of Manbij in the northern Aleppo countryside, with an anti-tank guided missile. Some of the fighters were critically wounded, with one of them losing a hand.
The Turkish missile strike came amid ongoing large-scale humanitarian operations in different parts of the northern Aleppo countryside after the February 6 earthquake that claimed the lives of more than 3,100 people in Syria, and 9,000 in Turkey. The natural disaster forced a de-facto ceasefire across Syria.
A day earlier, Kurdish forces shelled Turkish-occupied areas near the town of Marea in the northern Aleppo countryside. The Turkish strike may have been a response to the shelling, which didn’t cause any losses.
The Turkish military and the SDF have been exchanging blows in northern and eastern Syria for a few months now. Ankara threatened the group, which was backed by the United States, with a new ground operation on several occasions. Even the deadly earthquake was not apparently enough to force the two sides to de-escalate.
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Turks in Natostan are the guarantee that this cancer will sooner or later destroy the gangster syndicate and that in itself guarantees the collapse of the evil EUSSR. Meanwhile Mother Russia is playing them both like street level hoodlums. Slow death in rump Ukrapland is bleeding the angloZionaZi empire dry.
USA would not allow those to step back.
They should better join their neighbours, USA will not help them fir long.