Syria: Commander of the Kurdish forces was killed in an attack

A key commander of the Kurdish security forces, which are linked to the autonomous administration of northeastern Syria, was killed today in a car attack near a prison, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. According to the NGO, “a commander of the Kurdish security forces was killed and another wounded” in “an explosion near Umm Farsan prison, near Qamishli, which coincided with “the overflight of a Turkish drone”. “The commander played a major role in directing operations against the Islamic State group in Raqqa district,” the jihadist group’s former “capital,” according to the NGO, which is based in Britain but has a large network of sources in the war-torn country. Local Kurdish news agency Hawar reported a powerful explosion, specifying that a car had been targeted. Turkey’s attacks The Turkish military, which is deploying troops in northern Syria, frequently carries out strikes in northern Syria against areas controlled by the Kurds, whose territories were expanded when they defeated the […]
Source: News Beast

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