Female Kurdish Fighter Kills Turkish Troops in Likely Suicide Bombing in Syria<br />28, 2018<br />QAMISHLI, Syria — A female Kurdish fighter carried out what appeared to be a suicide bombing attack on the Turkish military in Syria, destroying a tank<br />and killing several Turkish soldiers with a grenade, Kurdish forces in the area said on Sunday.<br />The Turkish military offensive against Kurdish militias in the Afrin area of northern Syria has put Turkey<br />and the United States in the tense position of fighting with and against the same ally: the Kurdish Popular Protection Units, known by their acronym Y.P.G., along with their female component, the Y.P.J.<br />Black Sea GEORGIA Istanbul Ankara TURKEY IRAN Afrin Aleppo SYRIA IRAQ Mediterranean Sea 300 mileS JAN. 28, 2018<br />Afrin is well west of the area where United States forces are operating in cooperation with the Kurds,<br />but President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey has threatened to advance into areas to the east, where the Americans also operate.<br />A spokesman for the United States-led military coalition in Syria and Iraq, Col. Ryan Dillon, said<br />that American forces were not operating in the Afrin area and that he could not confirm nor comment on reports of a Kurdish suicide attack.<br />#YPJ female fighter Avesta Khabur blew herself up to stop Turkish forces assault on Hemmam<br />village in #Afrin region, killing several Turkish soldiers and destroying a battle tank.<br />The independent Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said<br />that the attack, which took place on Saturday, killed two Turkish soldiers after Ms. Hemo threw a grenade down the turret of the tank.
