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A Weekly News Bulletin From Rojava 3-9 November TEV-DEM Foreign Relations Centre Email: tevdeminfo@gmail.com Facebook: PDR Tev-Dem Twitter: PDR Tev-Dem WhatsApp: 00963 996 275573 2
Deal between ISIS and the Syrian regime in Deir ez-Zor It came out that the Syrian regime and ISIS engaged in talks and plans against the SDF. Accordingly, the regime will open the way for ISIS gangs to cross into SDF areas in Deir ezZor territory. The Syrian Ba�ath regime is after dirty schemes as it faces a deadlock and failure to make progress despite utilizing all technical means in its operation on Deir ez-Zor with the support of Iran and Russia. According to reliable sources on the ground, a deal was made between ISIS and the Syrian regime, according to which the regime will open way for the ISIS gangs that will leave Deir ez-Zor city centre to cross into areas liberated by SDF. For this reason, the agencies and media outlets of the regime are spreading news that Deir ezZor has been liberated by Syrian forces. In a statement on October 20, SDF forces announced that the Syrian regime had sent an ISIS convoy into their areas via the Salihiyah route on Oct. 18. The statement said that SDF forces noticed and neutralized the convoy of the gangs. https://anfenglish.com/news/deal-between-isis-and-the-syrian-regime-in-deir-ez-zor-23032 Attacks on Efr�n continue Gangs affiliated to the Turkish army continue their attacks on Efr�n, facing retaliation from the YPG/YPJ fighters. On the other hand, the Turkish army continues to build a wall at the border. According to YPG sources, the Turkish army and affiliated gangs attacked the Qestel Hill and the villages of Ayn Daqna and Maranez in Efr�n�s Shera district with heavy weaponry yesterday. YPG/YPJ fighters retaliated the attacks, during which one YPG fighter fell as a martyr. On the other hand, the Turkish army and allied gangs attacked the Basufane village in Sherawa district with BKC weapons and the Barin Hill in the Cindires area with DshK weaponry. Three cannon balls hit the village of Til Botan and 4 others the village of Til Bedirxan. YPG/YPJ fighters responded to this attack as well. 3 At the same time, the Turkish army continues to build a wall across the Raco region along the Rojava borderline. https://anfenglish.com/rojava/attacks-on-efrin-continue-23042 Adlib people: We believe SDF would liberate our city ALEEPO- The Adlib people who displaced to Aleppo assured that their hopes related to Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) to rescue them from the oppression of the Turkish occupation army and restore freedom to the city. Hawar news agency interviewed a number of people from Adlib city who have been displaced to Aleppo since the beginning of the Syrian crisis and the entry of mercenaries into the city. They called for SDF to liberate their city and restore freedom to it. The citizen Mahmoud Adlibi who displaced five years ago towards Aleppo, and lives in Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood said �I was obliged to displace from Adlib city because of the brutal practices of the mercenaries against us. They have arrested me three times, kidnapped my children, looted my possessions and they continue repeating their brutal practices against our remaining families in Adlib.� Mahmoud Adlibi continued �We appeal to SDF to liberate our cities and our people from the mercenaries� oppression. The people have lost their patience and their lives have become like hell. Now, it is the time for their hell to turn into a paradise, and we are greatly confident that SDF would meet our appeal, liberate us and deter the Turkish occupation from the city.� In the same context, the citizen Leila Bittar said that as the people of Adlib city migrated their homes, their lands were robbed by the mercenaries, and the worst crimes committed against their young women wondering is this Islam which the mercenaries of Erdogan pretend? �.. Klick for more: http://en.hawarnews.com/adlib-people-we-believe-sdf-would-liberate-ourcity/ First Civilians Return to Raqqa After Mines cleared BEIRUT � Hundreds of civilians have returned to a battered district of Raqqa in what a U.S.- backed force said was the first wave of returns since it cleared explosives left by jihadists. 4 The Islamic State (ISIS) lost control of Raqqa -- once its primary Syrian bastion -- on October 17 after a months-long battle with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). Tens of thousands of people fled the city during the offensive, reducing Raqqa to a ghost town of collapsed buildings. The SDF said in an online statement on Sunday that hundreds of families had returned to AlMeshleb, Raqqa's easternmost district. "The SDF informed civilians from Al-Meshleb that they could return to their homes after mineremoval teams had finished clearing the entire neighborhood of explosives left indiscriminately in civilian homes by IS," the force's press center said. It said the district was the first to which residents had returned since the city's "liberation from Daesh", an Arabic acronym for ISIS. After capturing Raqqa, the SDF sealed off the city to allow for mine removal operations in bombed-out neighborhoods. Residents often amassed at checkpoints in recent weeks, waiting for permission to access the city and see if their homes were still standing. Some civilians who sneaked in were killed by unexploded ordnance. �.. Klick for more: http://www.nrttv.com/EN/Details.aspx?Jimare=17403 Turkish army�s violations at Efr�n border continue Soldiers of the Turkish army uprooted 150 trees and continues with channel excavation at the border between Rojava (Western) and Bakur� (Northern) Kurdistan. Rojava-based Hawar News Agency (ANHA) reported that the invading Turkish army has built a military centre at the border of Northern Syria�s Efr�n Canton. 5 According to an ANHA report, soldiers of the Turkish army uprooted 150 trees of locals from Baliya village in Efr�n�s Rajo region, and continues with the building of a wall along the border. Turkish soldiers had similarly uprooted 70 olive and 50 almond trees in the village of Singel� in Rajo�s Meydana district on October 26. https://anfenglish.com/rojava/turkish-army-s-violations-at-efrin-border-continue-23089 Turkish army targets civilians, denies them harvesting olive AFRIN- The Turkish occupationist army continues to target civilians on the border with Afrin canton. Residents say that Turkish soldiers are preventing them from harvesting olives. The Hawar news agency has reported that Turkish border guards are opening fire at villagers living at bordering villages almost daily as farmers went to their fields to pick olives. �The Turkish army gendarmerie stationed on the borders adjacent to their village target our cars as we go to the fields to harvest the olives, while the gendarmerie shoots at us during the olive harvest to frighten us and push us to leave our goods,� said Muhammed Beyram from the Shaltah village in Shera district. Beyram pointed out that the targeting of Turkish soldiers to their fields resulted in material damage to their trees. The Turkish army reportedly has uprooted 150 forest trees in the Balia village of Rajo district yesterday. http://en.hawarnews.com/turkish-occupation-targets-civilians-denies-them-harvesting-olive/ 6 Assad: Syrian regime to fight Kurds after defeating Islamic State DAMASCUS, Syria (Kurdistan 24) � President Bashar al-Assad on Tuesday said Syria�s army and its allies would keep fighting in the country even after defeating the Islamic State (IS). Al-Assad�s remarks came during his meeting with Ali Akbar Velayati, the foreign policy adviser to Iran�s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Syrian state news agency SANA reported. He indicated that the war in Syria might evolve to include the Kurdish-led, US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) which are still fighting IS in Syria and control more than a quarter of the country. �The war waged by the Syrian Arab Army and allied forces is not only against terrorism but at the same time against attempts to exploit terrorism to divide and weaken states,� Assad�s office quoted him as saying. Two weeks ago, the SDF, of which the Kurdish YPG is a key component, took full control of the city of Raqqa, the previous stronghold and capital of the now-demolished IS caliphate. On Friday, Velayati said the Syrian army would soon advance on Raqqa to retake the city from the SDF and accused the United States of seeking to divide Syria by deploying its forces east of the Euphrates. Assad�s top advisor, Bouthaina Shaaban, also said in a televised interview that Damascus would not give up on the northern city of Raqqa. �.. Klick for more: http://www.kurdistan24.net/en/news/8bcacb4e-a8bc-4d5e-8a78- 63334ed3d6c2 Turkish army and gangs continue their attacks on Rojava The invading Turkish army and affiliated gangs continue their attacks on Rojava, Western Kurdistan. Turkish troops stationed in Batota village of Daritizz� town north of Idlib bombarded Birc Sil�man village in Efr�n Canton�s Sherawa district with mortars. 7 On the other hand, Turkish army-affiliated gang groups deployed in Al-Amarna village south of Jarablus shelled the positions of self-defense forces in S�xler town west of Koban� Tuesday evening. Self-defense soldiers retaliated the attack amid continued artillery attacks of the gangs. https://anfenglish.com/rojava/turkish-army-and-gangs-continue-their-attacks-on-rojava- 23107