Global Coalition’s inaction to boost ISIS activity – AANES official
RAQQA, Syria (North Press) – An official of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) said on Tuesday the stance of the US-led Global Coalition towards the Turkish strikes on northeastern Syria “create the right conditions for increasing the activity of the Islamic State (ISIS).”
Amina Osse, Deputy co-chair of the Executive Council of the AANES, said the actors in the Syrian issue ignored the “unjustified” Turkish attacks.
The AANES contacted officials in the Global Coalition to defeat ISIS, and Russia to report “the scale of the damages inflicted to vital infrastructure facilities that provided services for the community,” Osse stated to the official account of the Executive Council.
Since Oct. 5, Turkey has launched many airstrikes, artillery shells, and drone strikes against 28 infrastructure facilities, 150 residential areas, 34 military sites, including 21 locations of the Syrian government forces, seven farmlands, three factories, a school and a hospital, according to the Monitoring and Documentation Department of North Press.
The strikes took place following a statement by Turkey’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hakan Fidan, in which he threatened to strike a broader range of targets in Syria and Iraq in retaliation for the Ankara attack.
On Oct. 1, two individuals carried out a bomb attack in front of the building of the Ministry of Interior in Turkey’s Ankara injuring two police officers.
On Oct. 4, Fidan claimed that the two attackers had been trained in Syria. “From now on, all infrastructure, large facilities and energy facilities belonging to (armed Kurdish groups) in Iraq and Syria are legitimate targets for our security forces,” he threatened.