Title: Deadly 'Occupation': Video Shows Moment Syrian Villagers Open Fire On US Patrol Source:
[None] URL Source:https://www.zerohedge.com/geopoliti ... -villagers-open-fire-us-patrol Published:Feb 12, 2020 Author:Tyler Durden Post Date:2020-02-12 16:27:28 by Horse Keywords:None Views:430 Comments:17
A new video from the Al-Qamishli countryside was released this afternoon following a skirmish between the U.S. Armed Forces and residents of the Syrian village of Khirbat Amo, east of Qamishli in Syria's northeast.
According to a report from the Al-Hasakah Governorate, the residents of Khirbat Amo attempted to block the U.S. Armed Forces from bypassing a checkpoint belonging to the National Defense Forces (NDF) in the southern countryside of Al-Qamishli.
Below is the video of the gunfire exchange from Khirbat Amo on Wednesday:
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Al-Hasakah (Arabic: الحسكة,[1] Kurdish: Hesîçe ,حەسیچە[2][3]) also known as Al-Hasakeh, Al-Hasaka or simply Hasakah, is the capital city of the Al-Hasakah Governorate and it is located in the far northeastern corner of Syria.[4] With a population of 188,160 residents in 2004, Al-Hasakah is among the ten largest cities in Syria and the largest in the governorate. It is the administrative center of a nahiyah ("subdistrict") consisting of 108 localities with a combined population of 251,570 in 2004.[5] The NDF is the Syrian National Guard. But these people are a mixture of Kurds and others. They were ruled by Kurdish YPG until the settlement put Turks in and YPG out. The US needs to leave. Al-Hasakah has an ethnically diverse population of Kurds, Arabs and Assyrians and a smaller number of Armenians.[6][7] The Khabur River runs through Al-Hasakah and the rest of the governorate. Al-Hasakah is 80 kilometres (50 miles) south of the Turkish border-city of Qamishli. The Khabur River, a tributary of the Euphrates River flows through the city, downriver from Ras al-Ayn, another border town. The Jaghjagh River flows into the Khabur River at Al-Hasakah