Tal Abyad

Turkey's Defense Ministry on Nov. 17 said that the YPG/PKK terror group released over 800 ISILprisoners of war in Tal Abyad, Syria. 

A local council was established on Oct. 27 in Syria's northern town of Tal Abyad, which Turkey recently cleared of YPG/PKK terrorists with its Operation Peace Spring.

Commanders of the Syrian National Army (SNA) agreed with tribal representatives in the town of Tal Abyad in northern Syria to form a temporary civilian council to administrate the Syrian town.       

From the top-floor sniper position in western Raqqa, members of an American-backed militia scanned the ground for any signs of movement.

“We have hot soup, we have bread: Come out and surrender,” one of the fighters said on a loudspeaker. “The ISIS members and their families who surrendered to us are safe.”

Recordings from police wiretaps of a senior militant known to have been linked with both al-Qaeda and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) revealed his and his contacts' dedication to jihad.

Turkey and Syrian Kurds have been at odds since the Kurds in northern Syria consolidated their power during the war in Syria. The relations worsened further upon the recent victories of the Syrian Kurds against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). Yet despite the two group?s reciprocal dislike, rapprochement looms on the horizon.

Syria?s main Kurdish party warned Turkey July 1 that any military intervention would threaten international peace and said the country?s main Kurdish militia is ready to face any ?aggression.?

Meanwhile, a Syrian rebel group released a video showing 18 Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants being shot in the backs of their heads.

Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) fighters re-entered the Syrian Kurdish battleground town of Kobane on June 25, detonating a suicide bomb and battling Kurdish forces, a monitoring group said.

The People?s Protection Units (YPG), the military wing of Syria?s Democratic Union Party (PYD), have no intention of creating a ?Kurdish corridor? that would supposedly lay the ground for the foundation of an independent Kurdish state, PYD leader Salih Muslim has stated.

The Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) has reportedly closed the border gate in the Syrian town of Tal Abyad so that it can clear traps and bombs in the area following heavy clashes between Kurdish forces and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).