(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 42 people, including women and children, have been killed near Qamishli city, northeast Syria, by Kurdish militant group, over accusations of supporting the Islamic State (IS), activists told Zaman al-Wasl.
Fighters of the People Protection Units (YPG), the armed wing of Kurdish Democratic Union party (PYD), have stormed Arab-inhabited villages of Tal Khalil and al-Hajiya, killing whoever they met, eyewitness told Zaman al-Wasl in phone call.
‘Al Jazeera’, the disputed northern territory between Arabs and Kurds, has witnessed constant skirmishes. But the latest massacre may escalate Arabs fears who live in Kurdish areas.
Pro- PYD activists have justified the massacre by saying Kurdish fighters were engaged in fierce clashes with IS extremists.
IS fighters, recently, have inflected humiliating defeats on Kurdish armed groups in Syria and Iraq, what pushed the United States and Western countries to send an immediate support by arms and advisers to Kurdish Peshmerga and its fellow groups.
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