U.S.-allied Kurds in Syria say 12 people killed in Turkish strikes

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Turkey launched airstrikes precocious Wednesday successful Kurdish-held parts of Syria and Iraq successful retaliation for a deadly onslaught astatine a state-owned defense shaper successful Ankara that saw astatine slightest 2 attackers termination 4 group and coiled much than a twelve others.

The Turkish authorities blamed nan separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) for what President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called a "nefarious" onslaught connected nan Turkish Aerospace Industries office extracurricular nan capital.

Video verified by CBS News Confirmed showed harm to electrical infrastructure successful Kobani and Qamishli, nan de-facto superior of nan semi-autonomous region controlled by Kurdish-majority forces successful northeast Syria.

The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) — who were cardinal U.S. friends successful nan warfare against ISIS successful nan region — said Thursday that 12 group were killed, including 2 children, and 25 others wounded successful wide Turkish aerial and artillery strikes. Turkey's defense ministry said it struck 47 "terrorist targets" successful Syria and Iraq.

SDF commandant General Mazlum Abdi condemned nan Turkish strikes arsenic indiscriminate, saying they had deed civilian infrastructure, including wellness centers, successful northeast Syria.

"We person many times shown our readiness for dialogue. Meanwhile, we affirm that our forces are fresh to take sides our group and land," Abdi said successful a post connected X.

Some 900 U.S. forces stay successful nan region arsenic portion of nan world conjugation against ISIS, and nan SDF has agelong been America's superior partner connected nan crushed successful northeast Syria. Neither nan U.S. Defense Department nor its Central Command had commented connected nan onslaught successful Ankara, aliases connected Turkey's retaliatory strikes, by Thursday morning.

Ankara considers nan U.S.-backed SDF and its civilian body, nan YPG, to beryllium straight linked to nan PKK, which has waged a decades-long insurgency successful Turkey.

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The PKK, agelong designated a violent statement by Turkey and nan U.S., is nominally headquartered successful nan Qandil mountains of bluish Iraq. Turkey regularly strikes nan region.

No group has claimed work for Wednesday's onslaught successful Ankara, which came astatine a clip of renewed talks betwixt nan Turkish authorities and nan PKK's leader, Abdullah Ocalan, who has been imprisoned successful Turkey for much than 2 decades.

On Thursday, Ocalan's nephew Omer, a personnel of Turkey's parliament, conveyed a connection from nan PKK leader suggesting he was prepared to extremity nan convulsive conflict that has raged since nan mid-1980s.

Erdogan state and Nationalist Movement Party leader Devlet Bahceli had earlier invited Ocalan to reside parliament, and said nan 75-year-old could beryllium paroled successful speech for disbanding nan PKK.