Soldiers from the Kurdish YPG have launched a major assault to seize the last government-controlled areas of the northeastern Syrian city of Hasaka, after a Russian mediation team failed to mend the rift between the two sides.
The YPG began the offensive after midnight to take the southeastern district of Nashwa, close to where a security compound is located near the governor's office near the heart of the city, according to YPG sources and residents.
The YPG, or the People's Protection Units, has ties to Turkey's outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).
It had earlier captured Ghwairan, the only major Arab neighbourhood in Hasaka still in government hands.
Monday's offensive comes just hours after Syrian state media said a truce had been reached between Kurdish and government forces to evacuate the wounded from Hasaka.
Kurdish sources said on Sunday that no deal had been finalised.
Goverment fighter jets last week bombed the YPG for the first time during the war, prompting a US-led coalition to scramble aircraft to protect American special operations forces on the ground in the area.
"This is quite a significant development because the Kurds now seem to be determined to drive government troops out of the city and control it," said Al Jazeera's Hashem Ahelbarra, reporting from Gaziantep, near the Turkey-Syria border...
[aljazeera.com]
22/8/16
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The YPG began the offensive after midnight to take the southeastern district of Nashwa, close to where a security compound is located near the governor's office near the heart of the city, according to YPG sources and residents.
The YPG, or the People's Protection Units, has ties to Turkey's outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).
It had earlier captured Ghwairan, the only major Arab neighbourhood in Hasaka still in government hands.
Monday's offensive comes just hours after Syrian state media said a truce had been reached between Kurdish and government forces to evacuate the wounded from Hasaka.
Kurdish sources said on Sunday that no deal had been finalised.
The fighting in Hasaka, which is divided into zones of Kurdish and Syrian government control, marks the most violent confrontation between the Kurdish YPG and the Syrian army in more than five years of civil war.
- Violent confrontation
Goverment fighter jets last week bombed the YPG for the first time during the war, prompting a US-led coalition to scramble aircraft to protect American special operations forces on the ground in the area.
"This is quite a significant development because the Kurds now seem to be determined to drive government troops out of the city and control it," said Al Jazeera's Hashem Ahelbarra, reporting from Gaziantep, near the Turkey-Syria border...
[aljazeera.com]
22/8/16
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