The U.S.-backed YPG terrorist group, the Syrian wing of the PKK, nonetheless poses a risk in Syria’s northeast after the autumn of the Baathist regime, which extensively tolerated their presence. Attacks by the group close to Tishrin Dam on the Euphrates River are endangering the lives of tens of hundreds of civilians.
Since Dec. 20 final yr, PKK/YPG terrorists have focused areas across the dam, situated within the Manbij district of Aleppo governorate. Their long-range assaults with heavy weaponry have displaced round 50,000 civilians in 10 villages on the dam’s western financial institution. The indiscriminate shelling has compelled hundreds of residents to flee to safer areas, the place they’re now affected by a scarcity of fundamental requirements, significantly in harsh winter situations. Some civilians who had been killed within the assaults stay unburied as assist groups are unable to succeed in the realm attributable to ongoing violence and poor accessibility.
PKK/YPG terrorists have additionally taken greater than 150 civilians hostage within the village of Ash-Shash. Those nonetheless within the space face excessive hardship, with no entry to important provides. Villages like al-Kishla, al-Hammadat and al-Hajj Hussein, that are near the entrance strains, have suffered huge destruction. Other close by villages stay below fixed risk of bombardment. Residents are urgently calling for an finish to the assaults and the supply of vital humanitarian assist to the area.
The Syrian National Army (SNA), which liberated Manbij from terrorist management on Dec. 9, 2024, throughout Operation Dawn of Freedom, is now engaged in clashes with PKK/YPG terrorists close to Tishrin Dam in southeastern Manbij.
The neighborhood of the dam was additionally a scene of the deployment of civilians and YPG terrorists disguised as civilians in latest weeks. Türkiye has accused the group, whose foremost department PKK has killed hundreds in Türkiye because the Nineteen Eighties, of utilizing civilians as human shields.
The YPG exploited the safety vacuum and an obvious aversion of pro-Assad forces to strike them in the course of the civil battle and carved out its entity in northeastern Syria. As anti-regime forces superior towards Damascus final December, the Syrian National Army (SNA) launched an offensive towards the YPG to take again key cities the terrorist group captured. They managed to seize Tal Rifaat and Manbij.
The PKK/YPG terrorist group and Daesh threaten Türkiye’s borders and the territorial integrity of Syria and stay legit targets for Türkiye, the Defense Ministry mentioned final week amid ongoing counterterrorism operations at house and throughout the Turkish border in Syria and Iraq. Since the autumn of Bashar Assad, Türkiye has mentioned repeatedly it was time for the PKK/YPG to disband. Ankara has mounted a number of operations towards the PKK/YPG in Syria since 2016. The terrorist group depends on navy assist from the United States, which views it as a associate towards Daesh in Syria.
Source: www.dailysabah.com