ROJAVA-SYRIA

Latest News

• Afrin: Resistance and solidarity instead of flight 

  While the air and ground attacks by the Turkish military and jihadist militias continue unabated, the population continues to stay in Afrin.
• Footage of Turkish military vehicle destroyed in Afrin 

  YPG Press Office published footage of a Turkish military vehicle destroyed in a village of Afrin’s Shera district.
• Second group from the Syrian army arrives in Afrin 

  As part of an agreement between the YPG and the Syrian army, another group of popular protection units has arrived in Afrin.
• SDF: Two military vehicles destroyed in Shera 

  Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fighters destroyed two military vehicles in Shera district of Afrin.
• Turkish artillery fire wounds six in Afrin city centre 

  Turkish army hit Afrin city center with howitzers on Wednesday morning and wounded six civilians.
• Turkish army attacks Syrian military convoy 

  The Turkish military has carried out an airstrike on a Syrian military convoy in Afrîn.
• People of Aleppo and Afrin on their way to Shera 

  People from Afrin and Aleppo met in Meydanke and set out for the Shera district.
• Report about the Turkish massacre in Afrin’s Basuteh village 

  On 19\2\2018 Turkish shells targeted Basuteh village in Afrin’s Sherawa district. The severe attacks led to a massacre in a family of nine members, a child got martyred and eight were wounded.
• Another act of barbarism in Afrin: Disabled citizen killed 

  The invading Turkish army has murdered a disabled citizen in Mabeta.
• People of Aleppo: “We will not let Erdoğan through” 

  Thousands of Kurds, Arabs, Circassians and people of other ethnicities left Aleppo yesterday to offer support for the resistance, and they are sending a message to the Turkish state ruled by Erdoğan that they won’t let the invasion pass.
• 20 soldiers/gang members killed in Shera, one tank destroyed 

  In Afrin’s Shera district where the invading Turkish forces intensify their attacks, one tank has been destroyed and 20 gang members and soldiers have been killed.
• Aleppo residents travel to resistance areas in Afrin 

  Thousands of people travelled from Aleppo to Afrin yesterday, and are travelling to the resistance fronts today.
• Clashes intensify on Afrin resistance front 

  Intense clashes continue today in the Bilbilê, Shera, Rajo and Shiye districts on the Afrin resistance front between SDF fighters and the invading Turkish army and their ISIS-Al Qaeda gangs.
• Footage from where the Turkish state murdered children in Afrin 

  ANF obtained images from where the Turkish state murdered children in Afrin.
• Muslim: Civilians are hit by NATO weapons 

  TEV-DEM Foreign Relations Representative Salih Müslim held a press conference in Berlin about the Turkish state’s attacks and invasion attempt against Afrin.
• “We will not let the invaders advance” 

  Under Turkish state’s barbaric attacks in Afrin the fighters on the frontline stress that they will not let the invaders advance in the region.
• “Turkey will experience the same disappointments in Afrin” 

  Rojava Strategic Research Center Administrator Temûz Şemali stated that the Turkish state is bound to experience the same disappointments as before in their attacks against Afrin.
• More than 100 gang members killed in Afrin named 

  The ANF has obtained the list of gang members derived from ISIS-Al Qaeda killed in Afrin which the Turkish state officials and the Turkish media try to hide.
• Turkish army attacks villages of Jindires and Shiye 

  The Turkish army is attacking the villages of Afrin’s Jindires and Shiye districts with helicopters, local sources say.
• Seven Turkish soldiers killed in Afrin 

  Seven Turkish soldiers were killed during clashes between the Turkish army and Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in Raco district, SDF Press Center said.
• A Kurdish civilian killed in Turkish bombing: UPDATED 

  Turkish artillery fire killed a Kurdish civilian and wounded 10 others in Basute village near Sharawa district of Afrin.
• People of Aleppo heads out to Afrin 

  A large group is going to Afrin from Aleppo to support the historic resistance.
• Turkish warplanes bomb districts of Afrin 

  Turkish warplanes have been bombing villages of Jindires and Shera districts of Afrin, SDF sources said.
• Report on use of toxic gas by the Turkish army in Afrin 

  "On February 16, 2018, the Turkish invaders, along with its mercenaries, shelled the village of Aranda in the Shiah town of Afrin, with a kind of toxic gases, resulting in the suffocation of 6 civilians who were transferred to the hospital."
• Turkmen fighter: We are defending Afrin together 

  Arabs, Turkmens, Ezidis and Alevis are on the frontlines alongside the Kurds in the defense of Afrin. One of the Turkmen fighters, Kawa Welat says; “We built a life together with the Kurds, Arabs and other folks. Now we are defending it together.”