Female Kurdish Fighter Kills Turkish Troops in Likely Suicide Bombing in Syria
28, 2018
QAMISHLI, Syria — A female Kurdish fighter carried out what appeared to be a suicide bombing attack on the Turkish military in Syria, destroying a tank
and killing several Turkish soldiers with a grenade, Kurdish forces in the area said on Sunday.
The Turkish military offensive against Kurdish militias in the Afrin area of northern Syria has put Turkey
and the United States in the tense position of fighting with and against the same ally: the Kurdish Popular Protection Units, known by their acronym Y.P.G., along with their female component, the Y.P.J.
Black Sea GEORGIA Istanbul Ankara TURKEY IRAN Afrin Aleppo SYRIA IRAQ Mediterranean Sea 300 mileS JAN. 28, 2018
Afrin is well west of the area where United States forces are operating in cooperation with the Kurds,
but President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey has threatened to advance into areas to the east, where the Americans also operate.
A spokesman for the United States-led military coalition in Syria and Iraq, Col. Ryan Dillon, said
that American forces were not operating in the Afrin area and that he could not confirm nor comment on reports of a Kurdish suicide attack.
#YPJ female fighter Avesta Khabur blew herself up to stop Turkish forces assault on Hemmam
village in #Afrin region, killing several Turkish soldiers and destroying a battle tank.
The independent Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said
that the attack, which took place on Saturday, killed two Turkish soldiers after Ms. Hemo threw a grenade down the turret of the tank.
