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Four YPG Militants Killed in Hassakeh

While this bout of fighting killed four, internal conflicts between Kurdish groups in Syria are rare writes Zaman al-Wasl.
Four YPG Militants Killed in Hassakeh

Four Kurdish militants were killed when infighting erupted between the People’s Protection Units (YPG), the armed wing of Kurdish Democratic Union, and Asayish, it’s security wing in the town of al-Shaddadi in northeastern Hassakeh province, local activists said Thursday.

Such incidents are not common among the US-backed units.

Asayish is the police force of the autonomous Kurdish cantons, while the YPG is leading an alliance of Kurds and Arabs to uproot the last remaining pockets of Islamic State fighters inside Deir ez-Zor province.

 

This article was edited by The Syrian Observer. Responsibility for the information and views set out in this article lies entirely with the author.

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