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Kurdish YPG claims hundreds dead in clashes with Daesh at Turkish border

Published March 2nd, 2016 - 01:44 GMT
A 67-year-old man from Canada and a 40-year-old from the UK, nick-named by Kurdish fighters as Hewal Zinar and Hewal Cudi, train on the outskirts of the north-western Syrian town of Tal Tamr, north of Hasakeh, near the border with Turkey, as they fight alongside People Protection Unit (YPG) fighters under the commanders, Sider and Gerzan. (AFP/Uygar Onder Simsek)
A 67-year-old man from Canada and a 40-year-old from the UK, nick-named by Kurdish fighters as Hewal Zinar and Hewal Cudi, train on the outskirts of the north-western Syrian town of Tal Tamr, north of Hasakeh, near the border with Turkey, as they fight alongside People Protection Unit (YPG) fighters under the commanders, Sider and Gerzan. (AFP/Uygar Onder Simsek)

The Syrian-Kurdish militia, also known as the YPG, claimed on Wednesday that 43 of its fighters were killed when Daesh militants ambushed the town of Tel Abyad, located on the Turkish border at the weekend.

Redur Xelil, a YPG official, reported that the YPG possessed 140 Daesh fighters' bodies killed in a battle which started Saturday and lasted till Monday. 

He added that 23 civilians were also killed.

The YPG captured Tel Abyad from Daesh during an offensive supported by US-led air strikes in 2015.

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