{"id":47582,"date":"2022-02-03T10:27:34","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T10:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=47582"},"modified":"2022-02-03T10:27:34","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T10:27:34","slug":"european-lawmakers-push-to-classify-houthi-militia-as-terrorist-organization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=47582","title":{"rendered":"European lawmakers push to classify Houthi militia as terrorist organization"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nJEDDAH\/BEIRUT: Turkey launched a wave of airstrikes by 60 warplanes early on Wednesday targeting Kurdish militia positions in northern areas of Iraq and Syria.<\/p>\n

\nThe Turkish military said the airstrikes hit Derik in northern Syria, and Sinjar and Karacak in northern Iraq. The targets were outlawed PKK militants, who have bases in Iraq, and the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia. Turkey regards both groups as terrorists.<\/p>\n

\nDefense Minister Hulusi Akar said \u201cmany terrorists\u201d were killed.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\nThe Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a monitor based in Britain, said four security staff died in an airstrike on a Kurdish-run power station near Al-Malikiyah in Hassakeh province.<\/p>\n

\nIraq\u2019s military condemned what it called a Turkish infiltration into Iraqi air space as a violation of its sovereignty, although Baghdad is widely thought to be giving Ankara free rein to attack the militants.<\/p>\n

\nIt called on Ankara \u201cto put an end to these violations,\u201d and said \u201cIraq is fully prepared to cooperate (with Ankara) to stabilize the situation on the border.\u201d<\/p>\n

\nThe US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), the semi-autonomous Kurdish administration\u2019s de facto army, said four of its fighters died in the attack and vowed vengeance against Turkey.<\/p>\n

\nThe YPG \u2014 which forms the backbone of the SDF fighting IS in Syria \u2014 also condemned the Turkish airstrikes, which followed an attack by Daesh on a prison in Hassakeh province last month in an attempt to free their fighters.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\u201cTurkey tries to continue what Daesh started,\u201d the YPG said. \u201cEveryone has to take action against this attack now.\u201d<\/p>\n

\nThe YPG is viewed by Ankara as the PKK\u2019s Syria offshoot.<\/p>\n

\nOn Wednesday, shelling on the Turkish-held city of Al-Bab in northern Syria killed eight people, including five civilians, according to the Observatory which relies on a network of sources inside Syria.<\/p>\n

\nIt didn\u2019t specify who was responsible but Kurdish forces and Syrian regime troops are both deployed in the region.<\/p>\n

\nTurkish forces escalated attacks in northeastern Syria on Wednesday evening, shelling \u201cabout 20 villages and sites… in the Hasakah countryside and north of Raqqa governorate,\u201d the Observatory added later.<\/p>\n

\nIt said the attacks targeted residential areas and displaced a large number of people.<\/p>\n

\nThe Turkish strike came hours after hundreds of mourners gathered in Al-Malikiyah for mass funerals honoring Kurdish fighters killed in a week of battles with Daesh extremists\u00a0who had attacked the Ghwayran jail on January 20.<\/p>\n

\nSince the start of its military intervention in Syria in 2016, Ankara has sporadically bombed the YPG and carried out military operations targeting Daesh\u00a0and Kurdish forces.<\/p>\n

\nTurkey also routinely carries out attacks in Iraq, where the PKK has bases and training camps in the Sinjar region and on the mountainous border with Turkey.<\/p>\n

\nTurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has threatened to \u201cclean up\u201d parts of northern Iraq, accuses the PKK of using the border area as a springboard for its insurgency.<\/p>\n

\nIn December, Turkey carried out retaliatory air strikes in northern Iraq after three Turkish soldiers died in a PKK attack.<\/p>\n

\n(With AFP<\/em>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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