The U.S. and Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) alliance slaughtered approximately 23,000 civilians with the pretext of fighting Daesh in Syria’s Raqqa and Iraq’s Mosul. While the number of Daesh terrorists killed in these two cities - which are in ruins as a result of U.S. bombardment from land, air and sea - is 2,700, the number of civilian casualties is approximately 23,000.
In the siege of Raqqa, which began on June 6 and ended on Oct. 17, the U.S. slaughtered 4,200 civilians for its PKK ally. In Mosul, where a similar siege was enacted for a transfer from Daesh to the PKK, 18,500 Iraqi civilians were killed by U.S. bombs.
The U.S., which aimed to alter the maps by using Daesh and the PKK, wounded 68,000 civilians in the operations in Mosul and Raqqa. Daesh, launched by the U.S. in 2013, was used as a guise to turn Muslim cities into ruins. In both Raqqa and Mosul, 77 percent of the buildings were destroyed. The number of people killed in Raqqa and Mosul is over 40,000, according to some sources.
“The death of innocent civilians in Mosul is a terrible tragedy,” said Gen. Joseph Votel, Commander of the U.S. Central Command regarding civilian casualties in Mosul. Raqqa, where the Democratic Union Party (PYD) terrorist organization unfurled posters of the PKK ringleader Abdullah Öcalan, has become the site of destruction caused by Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter Daesh Brett McGurk. In Mosul, where bombs have turned the city into a ghost town, the homes of Muslims are plundered by the PKK, Peshmerga and Hashd al-Shaabi. It is claimed Brett McGurk is exhausting intensive efforts to “ignore” the scandals on the field in the reports written by the Pentagon.
The confession of a terrorist born in Syria who was a part of the Manbij and Raqqa attacks conducted by the PKK terrorist organization reveals the barbarity of the assaults. The female terrorist confessed on her social media account that the coordinates of Arab and Turkmen villages were provided to U.S. planes to be bombed, claiming that there were Daesh terrorists in the towns.
The U.S. has slaughtered over 3,000 civilians in many areas using this same method, especially in Kobani. In a statement issued by the U.S., it was announced that within the scope of the 135-day operation, 600 PKK terrorists and one U.S. soldier was killed. The statement said that the U.S. had not directly intervened, and that bombardments were carried out with PKK intelligence.
Head of the Raqqa Local Assembly Saad al-Shawish said that 90 percent of the city’s infrastructure had been destroyed and that the stench of dead bodies, mostly civilians, wafted throughout the city. “They want to forcibly make Raqqa a Kurdish city. The inhabitants of this town are almost all Arab, so this is insanity,” said Siveyshi, adding that the 450,000 civilians who left the city were exiled to further areas.
“Despite such advanced weapons and technology, the civilian death rate of the U.S. in Raqqa is a deliberate genocide. The PKK saw the capture of Raqqa as the revenge of Kobani,” he added.
Mahmut al-Alusi, a Yeni Şafak daily source from the region, said that no civilians were left in Raqqa, and that PKK terrorists ravaged the city for the last two weeks. Alusi noted that civilians who wanted to return home were shot at by terrorists.
A senior U.S. military commander on Tuesday misspoke when disclosing the number of American troops in Syria, highlighting the uncertainty over just how many are there.
"It's a little over 4,000 U.S. troops in Syria right now that are supporting efforts…against Daesh, and supporting the SDF [Syrian Democratic Forces]," he said in response to a question about the number of U.S. troops in the region.
When asked to affirm the 4,000 figure, Jarrard appeared to be caught off guard and claimed he "misspoke."
"I'm sorry. I misspoke there. There are approximately 500 troops in Syria," he said.
Briefing reporters at the Pentagon, Army Maj. Gen. James Jarrard initially put the number of U.S. troops on the ground in Syria at 4,000, a figure far greater than the official count of 503.
Jarrard, who heads the U.S.-led special operations task force in the fight against Daesh, offered the unexpected figure during a video conference with Pentagon-based reporters.
It has been an open secret that the U.S. has a far greater number of personnel in Syria than its officially disclosed figures. The Pentagon admits that rotational forces deployed for specific temporary operations are not included in that publicly disclosed number.
The U.S. has supported the PKK/PYD under the name of the SDF, which is considered by Ankara as the Syrian offshoot of the PKK terror organization that has waged a more than 30-year war against the Turkish state.
American support for the terror group has long vexed Ankara as Washington views the SDF as a "reliable partner" in its fight against Daesh and continues to provide it with arms and equipment in the face of strong objections by Turkey.
