DAMASCUS: Kurdish forces killed two Syrian soldiers in overnight clashes in the country’s northeast, the defense ministry said Thursday, with the Kurds saying they were targeting positions used by the Daesh group.
The ministry said in a statement carried by SANA state news agency that clashes took place after the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) attacked army positions in Raqqa province.
The SDF is the de facto army of the semi-autonomous Kurdish administration that controls swathes of the oil-rich north and northeast.
The Kurdish-led fighters took control of several locations “resulting in the death of two army soldiers and the wounding of others,” the ministry said.
Soldiers then returned fire and retook the positions, it said, adding Damascus held the SDF responsible for the attack.
