joint patrol #YPG & #US army

Syrian Kurds say Russia to build base in Afrin
In agreement with Kurds, Russia to operate military base in Afrin and train YPG fighters in 'anti-terror' combat.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/03/russia-strikes-deal-syrian-kurds-set-base-170320142545942.html

Russia is setting up a military base in northwestern Syria in agreement with the Syrian-Kurdish YPG armed group that controls the area and will train fighters, a YPG spokesman said on Monday.
The agreement with Russia was concluded on Sunday and Russian troops have already arrived at the village of Kafr Jina, in the northwestern region of Afrin, with troop carriers and armoured vehicles, YPG spokesman Redur Xelil told Reuters news agency.
"The Russian presence ... comes in agreement between [the YPG] and the Russian forces operating in Syria in the framework of cooperation against terrorism and to help train our forces on modern warfare and to build a direct point of contact with Russian forces," Xelil said in a statement.
"It is the first [agreement] of its kind," he added.
However, in a statement put out shortly after news broke of the alleged deal, the Russian Defence Ministry said there were "no plans" to create additional military bases in Syrian territory, but added that a section of its "reconciliation centre" was located in Aleppo province close to Afrin for the prevention of ceasefire violations.

The Trump Administration has doubled down on the strategy. In May, Trump approved a plan to arm Syrian Kurds in the S.D.F. directly, and deployed several hundred marines and Army rangers to support them. Around this time, Turkish jets bombed sites in Rojava, reportedly killing twenty Y.P.G. members. The attack prompted U.S. troops, in marked vehicles, to join Kurdish fighters patrolling the Syrian-Turkish border. “This needs to stop,” Erdoğan declared, adding that the presence of American flags in a “terrorist” convoy had “seriously saddened us.”

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The Syrian civil war has produced many strange bedfellows. But it’s especially curious that Öcalan’s revolution, which strives to eliminate “capitalist modernity,” has made its recent advancements under the patronage of the United States. In Rojava, Kurds often refer to Donald Trump as Bâvê şoreş—“Father of the Revolution”—and in Kobanî there is a kebab restaurant called Trump, with the President’s visage painted on its window. I met a Y.P.G. fighter who’d named his infant daughter America.

During the Raqqa offensive, U.S. Special Operations Forces were deployed throughout the city, but they avoided journalists. The S.D.F. also severely restricted the press. Reporters were assigned minders, and access to active front lines was almost impossible to obtain. More than once, I was told that I couldn’t go somewhere, only to find out later that U.S. soldiers had been in the area, or that bombardment from coalition planes and artillery had taken place nearby. U.S. Special Operations Forces ran a field hospital in Raqqa that treated wounded S.D.F. fighters; when I went there and asked if anyone would speak with me, I was aggressively confronted by half a dozen armed Americans, one of whom said, “Absolutely not.” He confiscated my phone and demanded its password. (I didn’t give it to him, and he eventually returned the phone.) An older American, with a graying beard and a ball cap, told me, “For you, information is a good thing.” He then explained that, for security reasons, it was better if nobody knew that they were there. Several soldiers escorted me to my car, and for the next two days the S.D.F. shut down the entire area to reporters.

Dark Victory in Raqqa
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/11/06/dark-victory-in-raqqa

German army praises YPG despite government ban on YPG flag
https://anfenglish.com/news/german-army-praises-ypg-despite-government-ban-on-ypg-flag-23565

An article published in German army’s Y Magazine praised YPG/YPJ forces which liberated Raqqa.

ANF BERLIN Saturday, 12 Dec 2017, 10:10

The magazine published a feature report about the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) after the liberation of Raqqa. Titled “Remnants of war” the article tells the story of YPG and YPJ fighters who liberated the city and says that the Raqqa operation sets an example how a city can be saved in modern era.

Y Magazine is only distributed to German army personnel and contains articles about military tactics and technology.

Also on the technology pages of the magazine the self-produced armoured vehicles were introduced.

A photo shows an American Humvee in Aleppo, which is provided with an additional metal plate with the inscription "YPG". Another photo shows a "self-made armoured car of the Kurdish militia YPG", which is said to have been used in the fight for Kobanê in 2015.

German government banned YPG and YPJ flags last March. Kurdish politicians say that the ban is a common decision with Turkey and accuses Berlin to oppress Kurdish society in the country.

Despite the ban, German army magazine published an article that praised YPG forces.

Always interesting to read somewhat about this "antistatist" and "anticapitalist" experience called "Rojava Revolution"...

Cooperation between Belgium, terrorists revealed
http://thefrontierpost.com/cooperation-belgium-terrorists-revealed/

Monitoring Desk

ANKARA: Ties between Belgium and terrorists from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK)’s Syrian offshoot, the YPG, were revealed after fresh evidence has come to light following a report by the Belgian Knack Magazine, where details of an alliance between Belgian’s Military Intelligence (ADIV) and the terror group were published.

The report claims that in 2016, Belgium provided medical supplies and weapons training to PKK terrorists in northern Iraq and that Belgium’s Military Intelligence came together with YPG terrorists in the country to provide them with logistics support that same year.

Head of Belgium’s intelligence forced to resign

Eight staff members working for the Military Intelligence grew uncomfortable with their ties to terror organizations and wrote a letter to the General Staff and Defense Ministry. The letter was then forwarded to Belgium’s State Security Service Surete De L’Etat.

Following a series of investigations, the authenticity of the letter was verified and the head of the Military Intelligence (ADIV) General Eddy Testelmans was forced to resign in July 2017.

Belgium’s State Security Service refused to close the file, and the Brussels Public Prosecutor was brought into the mix.

However, that didn’t prove sufficient for the Security Service which ordered an updated report into the issue in order to determine the existence of the undisclosed alliance between the YPG and both the Belgian General Staff and the Defense Ministry.

For a list of names in Raqqa

According to the report, General Eddy Testelmans wanted to make an ally of the YPG to avoid a scenario of Belgian pilots being taken captive by Daesh in coalition flights against the terror group in the case of the downing of an F-16 plane.

Testelmens also thought it was important to get a list of the names of Daesh members of Belgian origin, assuming it was kept in a center in Raqqa, and thinking that he could obtain that “vital” list by allying with YPG terrorists. However, he knew that befriending the YPG would upset Ankara, and that had he asked for the permission of the Defense Ministry and the General Staff regarding this situation, it was very likely that the answer would’ve been negative. Hence, he decided to continue working on it in complete secrecy.

The PKK is listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the European Union and the United States.

The PKK has been conducting armed violence in the southeastern part of Turkey since 1984. More than 40,000 people, mostly civilians, have been killed in the three-decade long conflict.

Sike

Blesk, what's your point in posting propaganda put out by the state of Turkey?

I hate Turkish State Propaganda as well as any other State Propaganda including krypto-revolutionaries like Rojavists.
But is it really posting "Turkish State Propaganda" to point out the direct links and collaboration between partisans of an "anticapitalist" and "antistate" revolution (Rojava) on one hand, and forces of several nations-states like USA, Russia, Baath government, Iran, etc. ad nauseam!???

The information published about Belgium military services helping YPG has been originally published in a Belgian Flemish weekly magazine, a mainstream one, you can verify and check it...
Cheers!

Could somebody provide more explanation about this?

NDF (not SAA) Liwa Baqir and Nubl&Zahra fighters enter Afrin and head towards clashes zone.

https://www.reddit.com/r/syriancivilwar/comments/7yvxrv/ndf_not_saa_liwa_baqir_and_nublzahra_fighters/

https://twitter.com/SyriaWar2/status/965943437752176641

Liwaa Al-Baqir announced it's going to defend the SDF in Afrin now. The same group was bombed by the Americans because it was trying to attack the SDF in Deir Al-Zawr last week.

https://www.reddit.com/r/syriancivilwar/comments/7yy8tr/liwaa_albaqir_announced_its_going_to_defend_the/

https://twitter.com/Zakaria_m_z/status/965987147781087232

Liwa al Baqir announce Next to Sheikh Nawaf AL Bashir that Liwa AL Baqer, Al Beqara clan in Aleppo are ready to retaliate for the martyrdom of the soldiers who martyred from the American Air Force who among them was Sheikh Nawaf son Ashraf Nawaf Al Bashir.

https://www.reddit.com/r/syriancivilwar/comments/7woqx2/liwa_al_baqir_announce_next_to_sheikh_nawaf_al/

https://twitter.com/IvanSidorenko1/status/962447603358142465

So it seems that Liwa al-Baqir (Syrian pro-governmental Shia militia) attacked some two or three weeks ago in the region of Deir-Ezzor a camp of SDF (pro-Kurds). In retaliation of that the US air force (BTW the USA is accused of betraying their "Kurd ally" while not reacting against Turkish aggression in Afrin) bombed the Liwa al-Baqir positions (death toll: around 100 militiamen).

And now it's the same Liwa al-Baqir with other pro-Baath regime thugs who are helping YPG/SDF in the battle of Afrin!!!
What the hell is this bullshit about!???