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Turkish troops fired on U.S.-backed Kurdish guerrilla fighters in northern Syria on Thursday, highlighting the complications of an incursion meant to secure the border region against both Islamic State and Kurdish advances. Syrian rebels backed by Turkish special forces, tanks, and warplanes entered Jarablus, one of Daesh ‘ISIS”s last strongholds on the Turkish-Syrian border, on Wednesday. But President Tayyip Erdogan and senior government officials have made clear the aim of “Operation Euphrates Shield” is as much about stopping the Kurdish YPG guerrillas seizing territory and filling the void left by Islamic State as it is about eliminating the ultra-hardline Islamist group itself. Turkey, which has NATO’s second biggest armed forces, demanded that the YPG retreat to the east side of the Euphrates river within a week. The Kurdish guerilla had moved west of the river earlier this month as part of a U.S.-backed operation, now completed, to capture the city of Manbij from Daesh. Ankara views the YPG as a threat because of its close links to Kurdish guerrillas waging a three-decade-old insurgency on its own soil. It has been alarmed by the YPG’s gains in northern Syria since the start of the Syrian civil war in 2011, fearing it could extend Kurdish control along Turkish borders and fuel the ambitions of Kurdish insurgents in Turkey. Turkey’s stance has put it at odds with Washington, which sees the YPG as a rare reliable ally on the ground in Syria, where Washington is trying to defeat Daesh while also opposing President Bashar al-Assad’s government in a complex, multi-sided, five-year-old civil war. The Syrian Kurdish force is one of the most powerful guerrillas in Syria and regarded as the backbone of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a U.S.-backed alliance formed last October to fight Daesh. Turkish Defense Minister Fikri Isik said the Kurdish PYD party, the political arm of the YPG, wanted to unite Kurdish-controlled cantons east of Jarablus with those further west. “We cannot let this happen,” he said. Read More: Reuters Featured Image – Wikimedia Commons If you enjoyed this article, please consider supporting our Veteran Editorial by becoming a SOFREP subscriber. Click here to get 3 months of full ad-free access for only $1
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बेरुत, साउन २२ गते । उत्तरी सिरियाको ऐतिहासिक सहर म्यानबीज अरब र कुर्द लडाकूहरुले शनिबार कब्जामा लिएका छन् । इस्लामिक स्टेटस् (आइएस)आतङ्ककारी समूहको बलियो प्रभाव रहेको सो सहर ‘द सिरियन डेमोक्र्याटिक फोसेस् (एसडीएफ)’ नामक अरब–कुर्द लडाकू समूहको संयुक्तबलले कब्जा गरेको एक मानव अधिकार समूहले जानकारी दिएको छ । शनिबार म्यानवीज सहर एसडीएफले कब्जामा लिएको मानव अधिकावादी समूह सिरियन अब्जरभेटरी फर ह्युम्यान राइट्सले जानकारी दिएको छ । सो सहर जिहादी समूहबाट फर्काउनको लागि गत मे ३१ एसडीएफले अमेरिकासँग आवद्ध चालकरहित विमान आक्रमणको पनि गराएको थियो । यो सहर टर्कीको सीमा रहेको सिरिया राकासहरबाट आइएस लडाकू समूहलाई सरसामाग्री आपूर्ती गर्नको लागि यातायातको प्रमुख मार्गको रुपमा रहेको थियो । सिरियामा सन् २०११ मा त्यहाँका राष्ट्रपति बसर अल असदको राजिनामाको माग गर्दै सुरु भएको जनआन्दोलन केही समयपछि गृहयुद्धमा परिणत भएको थियो । आन्दोलन गृहयुद्धमा परिणत भएपछि त्यहाँ विभिन्न आतङ्ककारी समूह अल कायदा, आइएसको प्रभाव बढ्दै गयो । जारी यस युद्धमा परी सिरियामा सन् २०११ देखि हालसम्म दुई लाख ८० हजारभन्दा बढी व्यक्तिको मृत्यु भइसकेको छ । त्यसैगरी यस युद्धमा परी लाखौँ व्यक्ति घाइते भएका छन् । लाखौँ आफ्नो देश छोडी विदेशमा शरणार्थी जीवन विताइरहेका छन् । सिरियाका कैयौ क्षेत्र आइएस लडाकू समूहले कब्जामा लिएका छन् ।