Afrin Liberation Forces (HRE) published a statement providing information about their latest actions against the Turkish army and its jihadist mercenary troops in northern Syria. According to the statement, at least ten mercenaries were killed and eight others wounded in the Turkish occupation zone in Afrin and Azaz within two days.
Regarding the details of the latest actions on 22-23 November, the HRE stated the following:
On 22 November, a mercenary was shot dead by a sniper in the enemy line in Azaz. An enemy squad that tried to recover the body was also targeted and another mercenary was killed.
On 23 November, a mercenary was killed by a HRE sniper in the Shera region of Afrin.
On the same day, HRE units overrun the positions of the invasion troops in the Azaz region. Seven mercenaries were killed and eight more were wounded during the raid.
On the other hand, HRE units targeted the reinforcement troops that then moved into the combat zone to retrieve the casualties. The number of mercenaries killed or injured here couldn’t be clarified, but a vehicle with a mounted machine gun was destroyed.
In other news YPG International made a statement on the occasion of International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, November 25th, saying the following:
“Today, states’ capitalist and class system is based on thousands of years of exploitation, oppression and violence against women. All around the world, we can see how patriarchal violence against women is reaching new heights. But if this violence has lasted for thousands of years, the resistance of women against it is also thousands of years old.
In every country, in every continent of the world, the struggle for the liberation of women has been systematically at the forefront of the struggle. One of the brightest examples of this legacy of resistance can be seen here, in Kurdistan and in the Rojava revolution. Here, the Kurdistan women’s movement has been the vanguard in the struggle for the transformation and liberation of life. Here, we learned that the liberation of society cannot be achieved without the liberation of women. The struggle for women’s freedom is the struggle for the freedom of everyone.
As men, as revolutionaries, it is our fundamental duty to make the struggle against patriarchy an essential part of our daily practice and struggle, and to reject and overcome every aspect that patriarchy has influenced in behaviour, mentality or action.
We are calling on every man to fight against the male-dominant system outside and inside themselves. We are sending with admiration and with the deepest respect our greeting to the Kurdistan women’s movement and all women’s movements around the world fighting against patriarchal violence. We draw a lot of inspiration and strength from their resistance.
Biji berxwedana YPJ (Long live the YPJ resistance), Jin, Jiyan, Azadi (Woman, Life, Freedom).”