Several Kurdish Fighters, Ankara-Backed Militants Killed in Afrin

A number of Kurdish forces and Ankara-backed militants were killed in Afrin in Northern Aleppo as tensions between the two sides intensified after several months of occupation of the region by the Turkish army.

News ID: 71168

Date: 12 July 2018 - 18:00

TEHRAN (Defapress)- Sources affiliated to the Ankara-backed militants reported on Wednesday that 15 Kurdish forces have been killed and captured during the Turkish army's cleansing operations in the towns of Rajou, Sheikh Hadid, Jandaris, Meidanki and other villages of Afrin during the past week.

Meantime, the Turkish army forces and Ankara-backed militants heavily pounded the village of Baini in Shirawa region in Afrin on Wednesday.

Also, the Arabic-language al-Mayadeen news channel reported that the Turkish army has sent a large volume of military equipment, including artilleries and tanks, to the village of Bastouleh in Southern Afrin.

The Kurdish forces, meantime, said that a military vehicle of Faylaq al-Sham terrorists was destroyed during the military operations against the Ankara-backed militants in Afrin in the past few days, killing 5 terrorists.

In a relevant development on Tuesday, a media outlet reported that three Turkish Army soldiers and a number of Ankara-backed militants, including a commander, were killed in Kurdish militias' attacks in Afrin region in Northwestern Aleppo last week.

The Kurdish-language Hawar news reported that elite Kurdish militia troops launched fresh attacks on the positions of Ankara forces in Bolboleh region. They also stopped the vehicle of Mohammad al-Suleiman, the commander of Jeish al-Nokhba, as he was travelling in the same region, and killed him.

Hawar news further said that other units of the Kurds further attacked the Turkish troops in the village of Rajou and in Mabata area in Afrin, killing three soldiers along with a number of Ankara-backed militants.

Hawar news went on to say that a sum of 2,515 military men from the Turkish army and their allied militants have thus far been killed in Afrin.

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