YPG reveals outcome of military ops in Afrin

NEWS DESK

The Press Center of the People’s Protection Units has released a statement about the military operations carried out against the Turkish occupation army and its gangs during the second week of July, within the second phase of Resistance of the Age.

The statement included:

On July 5, our forces targeted mercenaries guarding a military base in the area between Janders and Atima town in Afrin with sniper rifles. A mercenary was killed.

On July 6, our units ambushed a group of terrorists belonging to the group called Hamza Brigade on the road between Rajo and Afrin, where 3 terrorists were killed.

On July 7, the vehicle of the commander of FSA terrorists’ so-called Elite Unit was stopped in Afrin’s Bilbil district by one of our units. The mercenary called Mohammad al-Souliman was killed in the action. On the same day, our forces detonated a pre-prepared explosive device in one of the checkpoints of the terrorist group called Asafat al-Shamal in Mount Basraya (Jabal Qastal) of Shara district. 2 terrorists called Omar Kano and Ibrahim Kano, both of whom are from Azaz, have been killed in the operation.

In the evening of July 7, our units carried out another sabotage attack against a Turkish army patrol in Afrin’s Rajo, which killed 2 soldiers.

On July 8, a Turkish terrorist and one mercenary of Ahrar al-Sharqiyyah were killed in the bombing action targeting a military convoy which was participating in the combing operation in villages of Afrin’s Mobata district.

With the actions carried out between July 5-8, the number of deaths of Turkish invasion army and its mercenaries has risen to 2515.

YPG Press Center, July 10, 2018