In the night from Wednesday to Thursday militants Islamic State ( IS) began an offensive against the Syrian army and at the same time the city Koban, located in northern Syria, near the border with Turkey. In January, the Kurdish forces after four months of fighting all districts of the city was liberated from the rule of the Islamic State.
In the last two weeks Kurds with the support of the American bombing IS recovered from the hands of large tracts of the northern province of Raqqah. To regain the initiative, the jihadists drove the Syrian army from Hasaki in north-eastern Syria, and on Thursday stormed on Koban controlled by Kurds in the north-western part of the country.
Syrian media reported the regime, Islamists attacked the city from the territory Turkey. The same information Kurdish militants reported on their profiles in social media. However, the Turkish regional authorities flatly denied this, claiming that the jihadists came from the Syrian city of Dżarabulus, located west of Koban. in turn, a spokesman for the Turkish Foreign Ministry called the reports that the Islamists came from Turkey, “lies”.
The Turkish authorities recognize the regime of Bashar al-Assad, as well as Kurdish minority in Turkey, for the enemy himself.
A car bomb and attack from three sides
The offensive on Koban began with a car bomb exploded near the border crossing with Turkey. As a result of the explosion and the first assault forces IS 15 people died and another 70 were injured, reported the hospital in the city. Many of the wounded lost limbs, some were transported to Turkey.
Then the Islamists managed to break into the city, where street fighting began. As reported headquarters of the Kurdish People’s Defense Units (YPG), the jihadists attacked the city from three sides.
– A blind opened fire on the people they encountered on their way – he told Reuters a spokesman for YPG Redur Kselil. He added that the Islamists, who came from the west, arrived in five vehicles under the flag of the Free Syrian Army, yet another side in the Civil War. The maneuver was likely to confuse the Kurds, who happened to fight against their enemies together with the Syrian opposition.
IS forces attacked the village in the south of Koban, were killed in the last days of at least 20 civilians.
At the same time in the south of Syria, near the Golan Heights, the forces attacked army positions IS Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in the city of Dara, reported the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Author: fil // gak / Source: Reuters, BBC, PAP
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