• Offensive. "The entire border between Syria and Turkey is burning"

Tel Abyad was the subject of an attack this Saturday afternoon. A vehicle loaded with explosives exploded next to a commercial area of ​​this border town, recently occupied by Turkey and its allied Syrian militias after expelling the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDS), led by Kurds. According to the Turkish Ministry of Defense, at least 13 civilians were killed and about twenty were injured by the explosion, the second in a few days against areas in Turkish hands.

Ankara has accused the SDS of the attack. "We strongly condemn the inhuman bomb attack that the bloodthirsty PKK / YPG terrorists carried out against the innocent civilians of Tel Abyad who were able to return to their homes as a result of the 'Operation Peace Spring' , and call on all countries to pronounce themselves against this brutal terrorist group, "the Turkish statement said. No one has claimed the attack so far.

Commands close to the SDS have acknowledged a campaign of attacks in the rear of the Turkish forces and their backups, in response to the successive offenses launched by Turkey against them. The Kurds deny having civilians as their objective. The Tel Abyad attack occurs only two days after eight wounded died and more than thirty were injured by the outbreak of another car in the Al Hal de Bazaar bazaar, from which Turkey expelled the Kurds in 2018.

These types of attacks have been equally recurring in Kurdish territory. On October 11, a car bomb killed four civilians and wounded nine when detonated on a busy street in Qamishlo, the main Kurdosyrian town. In this case, the Islamic State, who is known to have sleeping cells in the northern part of Syria, claimed responsibility for the attack. The coup exploded the fact that Kurdish ranks are resenting the offensive that Turkey launched on its territory half a month ago.

Tel Abyad and Ras al Ain, the two main locations taken by the Turks and with a notable fraction of the Arab population, have not been completely empty. However, about 200,000 people have fled because of the fighting , which has killed dozens of civilians on both sides of the border, especially on the Syrian side. Despite the validity of the Russia - Turkey agreement, for which Ankara promised to limit its progress, the Kurds accuse him of trying to expand.

In recent hours skirmishes have been concentrated in the vicinity of Tel Tamer, a town of Christian majority on the banks of the Jabur River. The Syriac Military Council, attached to the SDS, has announced its deployment in the area, where there is also a detachment of the Syrian army, the result of a previous agreement with Damascus. Meanwhile, Russian and Turkish soldiers have completed the first patrol along the border line , contemplated in the pact signed last month in Sochi.

To the east of the country, for its part, the United States continues to develop its defense against the oil and gas wells that the Kurds maintain , mainly in the province of Deir Ezzor. Although before the war the production of Syrian crude oil made up 0.5% of the global total, the Pentagon found in the hydrocarbons speech the perfect hook to get Donald Trump to reconsider the total withdrawal of troops he had ordered.

The other leg of the complex and agonizing Syrian conflict addressed in recent hours is the situation of the thousands of prisoners of the Islamic State who remain in camps and prisons managed by the Kurds. Turkey, a country that once was the entrance highway to the pseudocaliphate of the group also known as Daesh, wanted to make things clear mainly to European countries, which are still trying to extend as much as possible the resolution of the problem of their nationals of the IS.

"Turkey is not a hotel of terrorists from any other country," Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu has sentenced to local media. His words came shortly after learning that the Dutch embassy in Ankara had closed the door in the noses of two citizens of his country, who had managed to escape from a Syrian camp and move to Turkish territory. The excuse of the Dutch Government is that it has revoked the nationality of both. Turkey wants each country to take its own home.

"Countries cannot simply revoke the nationality of this terrorists and expect Turkey to take care of them; this is unacceptable and also irresponsible," Soylu told reporters. Periodically, Turkey arrests alleged Daesh members from other countries in its country. According to the Turkish newspaper 'Daily Sabah', the Turkish army has arrested 265 people linked to the IS who had escaped from the Kurdish prison camps in recent weeks.

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