YPG–FSA relations

U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis on Feb. 11 acknowledged that some members of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) – the U.S.-backed militant group dominated by the Syrian Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) – had shifted to the Afrin district amid Turkey’s ongoing military operation there, state-run Anadolu Agency reported on Feb. 12.

At least 1,266 People’s Protection Units (YPG) militants have been “neutralized” since the beginning of “Operation Olive Branch” in Syria’s Afrin district, the Turkish General Staff said on Feb. 11.

Two Turkish soldiers were killed in a mortar attack by People’s Protection Units (YPG) militants in the northwestern Syrian district of Afrin, according to a military statement on Feb. 7.

Turkish soldiers and Free Syrian Army (FSA) fighters have uncovered a four-kilometer-long ditch used by People’s Protection Units (YPG) militants in a village they captured during the ongoing “Operation Olive Branch” in northwestern Syria.

The Kurdish-led People's Protection Units (YPG) launched a big counter-assault in the northwestern countryside of the Afrin region against the Turkish backed rebels in the Bulbul District on Thursday, but where is the YPG getting it's weapons from? Sputnik spoke to Turkish military analysts to find the answer.

The Turkish Armed Forces and the Free Syrian Army (FSA) cleared People’s Protection Units (YPG) militants from Mount Ain al-Batman in the northeast of the Afrin district in northern Syria on Jan. 31, the 12th day of “Operation Olive Branch.”

Two Turkish soldiers were killed, while 11 others were wounded with no life threatening injuries during clashes with Syrian Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) militants during military operation in Syria’s Afrin on Jan. 27, Turkish military said.

Members of the Syrian Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) who leave anti-Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) operations and mobilize in Syria’s northwestern city of Afrin will lose backing from the United States, the Pentagon told state-run Anadolu Agency on Jan. 23.

Turkey’s Armenian Patriarchate has expressed support for the Turkish military’s operation in Syria’s Afrin district, which is currently being controlled by the People’s Protection Units (YPG).

A rocket fired from the Syrian city of Afrin struck a Turkish camp where Free Syrian Army (FSA) fighters were located near the border on Jan. 22, killing two people and wounding 12.