Turkish elite forces have killed five YPG militants in northeastern Syria, the Defense Ministry said on Saturday.
"Our commandos do not allow passage to terror groups. Five PKK/YPG terrorists, who attempted to infiltrate into the Operation Peace Spring zone, aiming to disrupt the peace and secure environment, were neutralized," the ministry said on Twitter.
Turkey forces backed by Syrian opposition factions last October launched a cross-border attack against Kurdish-held areas, grabbing a 120-kilometre-long (70-mile) swathe of Syrian land along the frontier.
Turkey considers the Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units, or YPG, terrorists for their links to a decades-long Kurdish insurgency inside Turkey that has killed tens of thousands. The same fighters were the United States' partners on the ground in fighting the Islamic State group.
(Zaman Al Wasl, AA)
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