Posts covering last weeks Manbij incident:
- Pentagon Identifies Three of Four Americans Killed in Syria
- Pt 2: Implicating Turkey with Innuendo & Aspersion- The "safe zone"
- Manbij Blast: Implicating Turkey With Innuendo & Aspersion
- ISIS Suicide Bomber in Manbij:The Withdrawal That Wasn’t Taking Place, Still Will Not.
Breaking news:
Daily Mail No American service persons killed in this attack- not according to any of the reports I've seen.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said five fighters from the Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) were killed in the attack, which occurred on a road in Hasakeh province.
The attack, on which there was no immediate comment from the coalition, came less than a week after another attack on the US-led force and its local partners in the strategic city of Manbij.
Two US soldiers were injured in Monday's attack, according to the monitoring group, and five other people were killed. There was no immediate confirmation of that report.Syrian state news agency SANA said the suicide bombing hit a Syrian Kurdish checkpoint near the town of Shaddadeh, in the Hasakeh province.
A car bomb detonated close to a militia checkpoint in the Kurd-held city of Al-Shaddadah in northwestern Syria as a US-Kurdish convoy was passing by. At least five people may have been killed.
According to the Kurdish Hawar News Agency, the explosives were hidden in a Hyundai car, which detonated at a checkpoint set at the entrance to the town near a bridge over the Khabur River.
The explosion was set off by a suicide driver, who was told to stop by the militia fighters manning the checkpoint.
There are conflicting reports on whether the attack resulted in causalities. The Kurdish agency says it did not, but some Turkish sources state as many as five people were killed by the explosion. Some reports say the checkpoint was attacked while a joint US-Kurdish patrol was passing by and that some US service members may have been hurt.