Baladi News – (Kinan Sultan)
Targeting Arab groups fighting for Syria's Democratic Forces (SDF) have been repeated by the international coalition forces based on coordinates provided by a source on the ground, which has resulted in Arab fighters' casualties exclusively.
Over the past two days, the international coalition struck headquarters on the battlefront of Raqqa city and its environs, and it was found out later that they belong to SDF elite forces near the archeological fence. The same forces attacked positions of "Manbij Military Counsel" yesterday in al-Akirshi area, which killed by this repeated "mistake" at least 40 casualties.
Not so long ago, "Raqqa Hawks Brigade," constituted of residents from Tell Abyad city and its countryside were struck by the international coalition forces in mid-March in the outskirts of Tabaqa city before controlling it. The strike, which was said to have taken place by mistake, killed 12 fighters.
Many strongly believe that there is a clear goal that the Kurdish Protection Units want to achieve. They want to deliver a message that they are the only decision maker in the course of the battles and the future of the area as a whole. Accordingly, those who determine the targets' banks are themselves the ones who coordinate with the warplanes, and this task is performed exclusively by the chiefs and fighters of the Kurdish militias.
In this context, sources from the Arab fighters within SDF reported that when an Arab group surrounded by ISIS in the eastern neighborhoods of Raqqa last Saturday requested sending their coordinates to the international coalition to break the siege on them, YPJ officials answered "let them all go to hell" unless they are Kurds.