Senior female Kurdish political leader killed in ambush in Syria

[G_j]

Source: Kurdistan24

ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – The Future Syria Party’s Secretary-General, Hevrin Khalaf, was killed on Saturday when Turkish-backed groups tried to take control of a point on the international M4 road.

“With utmost grievance and sadness, the Syria Future Party mourns the martyrdom of engineer Havrin Khalaf, the General Secretary of Syria Future Party, while she was performing her patriotic and political duties,” the Future Party said in a statement.

Khalaf was reportedly killed when a Turkish-backed group ambushed her on the road to the city of Qamishlo.

“A group of Turkish mercenaries tried to control the M4 road and killed many people, and Hevrin was one of them,” one senior official told Kurdistan 24.




Read more: https://www.kurdistan24.net/en/news/dadc2b6a-f0de-42e1-9158-3c94a4e176d9

[underpants]

1. Amazing society and structure the Kurds have

This sounds like a hit.

[Baitball Blogger]

3. Of course it was.

[iluvtennis]

5. it does sound like a hit. RIP Havrin Khalaf

[SCVDem]

2. tRump could give a shit!

He is not America and I would say, not even an American!

Is that why he went after Obama's birth certificate?

Projection? Since everything else about him is crooked, let's take a look!

Hang in there Kurds! NATO should step in and stop this!

[Evolve Dammit]

10. Son of immigrants with no respect for anyone that's not white. Yes to NATO, while our troops

are re-deployed to Saudi Arabia?? WTF is wrong with the U.S.? That decision had to have Pentagon support, or did it?

[IronLionZion]

4. The Kurdish are more liberal on women's rights compared to their neighbors in the Middle East

maybe that's why Trump wants them dead

[keithbvadu2]

6. Kurdish soldiers men women checkout round - Hard Core!

Kurdish soldiers men women checkout round

https://i.imgur.com/gRLgnyu. jpg ... whole image

[bluestarone]

7. To me this is proof that trump was involved in the murder in Saudi Arabia

So fucking sad!

[Mc Mike]

8. I wonder if the repugs hired these assassins the same place they got the hitters at benghazi.

Some mid-east soldier of fortune mag.

[randr]

9. Death by Trump

[BlueWI]

11. What a loss.

Heartbreaking at any moment, and the current moment has such a high need for principled leadership.

What a terrible cost of the unilateral decision by Trump.

[smirkymonkey]

12. Fuck Trump and fuck the Turks!

Her blood is on your tiny orange hands, you bastard!

[Eugene]

13. U.S. says reports of killing of Kurdish politician in northeast Syria 'extremely troubling'

Source: Reuters

WORLD NEWS OCTOBER 13, 2019 / 8:47 AM / UPDATED 2 MINUTES AGO

U.S. says reports of killing of Kurdish politician in northeast Syria 'extremely troubling'

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has seen reports of the killing of a Kurdish politician and captured Kurdish fighters in northeastern Syria, a State Department spokesman told Reuters on Sunday, adding that it was looking into the incident.

“We find these reports to be extremely troubling, reflecting the overall destabilization of northeast Syria since the commencement of hostilities on Tuesday,” the spokesman said in an email.

On Saturday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based organization which reports on the war, said Turkey-backed groups had killed nine civilians, including Hervin Khalaf, secretary general of the Future Syria Party.

Khalaf had been returning from a meeting in Hasaka at the time of the attack in which her driver and an aide were also killed, said Hussein Omar, the Future Syria Party’s coordinator in Europe. Party officials including Khalaf have had contacts with U.S. officials since it was founded in 2018, he said.

Reporting by Humeyra Pamuk; Editing by Elaine Hardcastle and Lisa Shumaker

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-turkey-usa-killing/u-s-says-reports-of-killing-of-kurdish-politician-in-northeast-syria-extremely-troubling-idUSKBN1WS0EX