Eric Pahon, a Pentagon spokesman, told Business Insider that he couldn’t go into detail about whether the US supplied the anti-tank missile or Grad systems to the US-backed Kurdish fighters of the Peoples’ protection Units (YPG).
The YPG fighters battling IS in Syria released a video on Saturday showing them destroying a tank being used by Turkish-backed rebels in northwest Syria, Military Times first reported.
“Today at about 9:30 am our forces targeted and destroyed a tank belonging to terrorist groups under the Turkish army’s command near Azaz hospital in Afrin’s Shera district,” the YPG said on Facebook.
The video shows YPG fighters lying a concrete platform and then firing an anti-tank missile at the tank. The amount of damage or number of casualties is unknown.
The YPG also released other videos showing their forces firing 122 mm rockets from Russian-made BM-21 Grad systems at Turkish rebels in northern Syria, Military Times said.
Whatever the case, the US supplying the YPG with weapons in the fight against IS has angered Turkey.
Turkey has consistently reinforced its border along northwestern Syria, where its military and the YPG regularly exchange rocket fire.