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Extensive and huge military exercises by the global coalition near the Conoco military base eastern Deir Ezzor, featuring aerial combat maneuvers. @KurdishFrontNews

The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the United States-led coalition on Friday arrested a suspected leader of the Islamic State (ISIS) in Syria’s eastern Deir ez-Zor province, a conflict monitor reported. “In a special operation in the town of al-Busayrah in Deir Ezzor countryside, the global coalition forces and the SDF arrested a leader of the Islamic State organization who leads a cell in the town to launch attacks and target SDF areas,” said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based war monitor. @KurdishFrontNews

-What is striking is that the Turkish attacks, especially the Tal Hamis area, which is far from the Turkish-Syrian border, targeted our points as well as civilians. -Civilians who tried to help and transport the wounded where they were targeted. It is known that in international law, when the wounded are helped, no one can target them, but Turkey did, and this in itself is terrorism. -In general, the wounded who died as a result of being targeted by Turkey range in age from 11 years old to 60 years old. -The goal of these attacks is to intimidate the population, but it cannot announce this publicly, as they claim that they are attacking the SDF, but it is clear that the targeted people are civilians. @KurdishFrontNews

Director of the Media Center of the Syrian Democratic Forces, Farhad Shami: -The Turkish state does not need arguments and pretexts in order to launch attacks. It is continuing the attacks and it will never stop. -We said that before now about the Turkish occupation, and whenever it gets the opportunity, especially through its drones or warplanes, it launches its terrorist attacks. -The Turkish occupation also has attempts, from a diplomatic, military and political standpoint, to launch ground operations, and as we know, there were previous attacks on Afrin and then on Girê Spi, especially after the agreement with some international powers, It is currently making attempts in the same context, and is creating pretexts to attack this region. -We should not expect that the Turkish state will one day stop its attacks against the regions of northern and eastern Syria, as it will sometimes use the excuse that this region will now hold local elections. @KurdishFrontNews

Reporter Scharo Maroof: 100+ Kurds (including minors) were arrested and hundreds more are being evicted from the Kurdish neighbourhood Arnavutköy in Istanbul The neighbourhood is to be demolished to make room for investment projects - the Turkish administration has ordered the demolition of the neighbourhood - but! The administrative court has ruled that the demolition is illegal. The inhabitants were also not offered any compensation. Escorted by turkish riot police, state administered demolition crews moved into the neighbourhood over night - the Kurdish inhabitants protested this development but the demolition continued - the inhabitants then barricaded themselves in their homes, which lead to these awful scenes. @KurdishFrontNews

Footage of the ambulance from Heyva Sor that was targeted earlier by the Turkish army. @KurdishFrontNews

Green Party members Berivan Aymaz and Anton Hofreiter wrote a letter to Turkey's ambassador to Berlin, Ahmet Başar Şen, demanding the release of Selahattin Demirtaş from Turkey. @KurdishFrontNews

Ramazan Şimşek, the owner of Pîne Cafe in Diyarbakir, was sentenced to house arrest by the court and released on the condition that he was banned from leaving the country. @KurdishFrontNews

The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have complained to the US about its silence over the increased Turkish aggression that has heavily damaged infrastructure in northeast Syria. “Our American partner's silence as our schools, hospitals and power plants are being destroyed, as civilians are being killed in Turkish drone strikes, regretfully leads us to a sole conclusion: that the Turks are acting with the unspoken blessing of the United States,” SDF Commander-in-Chief Mazloum Abdi told Al-Monitor. According to a report of the Northeast Syria (NES) NGO Forum, a coordination group for non-governmental organizations operating in northeast Syria, escalations (by Turkey) in October through December 2023, have all but decimated the civilian infrastructure relied upon by the population of the Kurdish enclave. “Electricity transfer stations, water stations, gas and fuel plants have been targeted repeatedly,” the report said. @KurdishFrontNews

A reliable source told Kurdistan24 that a Turkish drone targeted a building in the village of Hatim on the road between Qamishlo and Amuda. The source also revealed that minutes later, the Turkish drone targeted the Kurdish Red Crescent team near the building. According to preliminary reports, several people were injured. @KurdishFrontNews