Kurdish Female Fighters Commandeer Tanks In Battle to Capture Aleppo Air Base

Jack Moore

Updated 11 February 2016 at 6:59 am

Footage emerged on Thursday of female Kurdish fighters commandeering tanks, sniper rifles and machine-gun mounted trucks in the successful offensive to capture the Mannagh air base from Islamist rebels in Syria’s Aleppo province.

The video, released by the Kurdish AHNA news agency, Islamist rebels in Syria as well as the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) in eastern Syrian provinces of Raqqa and Hasakah. Arab rebels claim that Kurdish fighters are cleansing towns they capture of Arabs to claim more territory for an enclave they wish to build for themselves in northern Syria. The YPG denies this accusation.

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