Assad regime warplanes hit Kurds in Syrian Kurdistan for first time - E-Kurd.

[TomSea]

Assad regime warplanes hit Kurds in Syrian Kurdistan for first time

QAMISHLO, Syrian Kurdistan,— Syrian government warplanes bombed Kurdish-controlled areas of the city of Hasaka in Syrian Kurdistan [northeastern Syria] on Thursday for the first time in the five-year-old civil war, the spokesman for the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia and a monitoring group said.

YPG spokesman Redur Xelil said the air strikes had hit Kurdish districts of the city, which is mostly controlled by Kurdish groups, and the positions of a Kurdish security force known as the Asayish.

“There are martyrs and wounded,” he told Reuters.

Read More At: http://ekurd.net/assad-warplanes-kurds-syria-2016-08-18

We will need to see what this is about.

[TomSea]

The Kurds could get the squeeze if Russia and Turkey have better relations.

Shows you if we had had a competent leader like, imho, Romney, we wouldn't be dealing with a lot of these situations.

I figured that Russian pilot getting shot down was really just political drama.

[dfwgator]

We will need to see what this is about.

Something's up, between Turkey and Russia.  We may be on the verge of the modern-day equivalent of the Ribbentop-Molotov Pact.