US delivers 250 truckloads of weapons to YPG

<p style="text-align: left;">The US continues sending weapons to the pro-Kurdish Peoples&amp;rsquo; Protection Units (YPG) in the north of Syria.

The United States continues with the latest delivery of 250 truckloads of weapons and military equipment on Wednesday to the forces, Daily Sabah claimed.

Kino Gabriel, the spokesperson for the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a group which is dominated by the YPG told the Sputnik news service that the U.S. supports the group under the pretext of defeating the IS in Hajin, a Syrian town in the eastern Deir ez-Zor province, where the YPG launched its latest offensive on Sept. 11.

The YPG launches airstrikes in the region with the support of not only the U.S., but also France. The YPG occupies areas in the eastern part of the Euphrates River as well as rural eastern and western parts of Deir ez-Zor. In total, approximately 28 percent of Syrian territory is under control of the YPG.

"[The] U.S. sent us Hummer vehicles and heavy weapons for the Hejin operation. There are also automatic machine guns, howitzers and other light weapons from the weapons that were sent by the U.S.," an anonymous senior SDF official said to Sputnik.

"The weapons entered the country from northern Iraq's Semalka border gate," he added.

To date the U.S. has sent a total of 4,700 heavy weapons and armored vehicles to the YPG.

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