YPG (People’s Defense Units) Press Office released the following statement providing information about the operations carried out by their units against occupation forces in Afrin.

"Within the scope of the second phase of the Resistance of the Age in occupied Afrin, our forces carried out two distinct operations in Jinderese and Shiya districts, targeting the mercenary allies of the invader Turkish state.

On September 19th, our units ambushed a military vehicle of the Ahrar al-Sham mercenary fraction on the road leading to the village of Ghazawiya in Jinderese. As a result, two mercenaries were killed and three others wounded, while the vehicle itself was completely destroyed. The names of killed mercenaries are Ibrahim al-Rabiya (originally from Hama) and Atta al-Mousa (Hama).

On that same day, our fighters ambushed two mercenaries of the Liwa al-Waqqas fraction on the road to the village of Hakhicha in Shiya district. As a result, both mercenaries were killed and a MG-3 machine gun was seized."