Eric Pahon, a Pentagon spokesman, told Business Insider that he couldn\u2019t go into detail about whether the US supplied the anti-tank missile or Grad systems to the US-backed Kurdish fighters of the Peoples\u2019 protection Units (YPG).<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
\u201cToday at about 9:30 am our forces targeted and destroyed a tank belonging to terrorist groups under the Turkish army\u2019s command near Azaz hospital in Afrin\u2019s Shera district,\u201d the YPG said on Facebook.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Whatever the case, the US supplying the YPG with weapons in the fight against IS has angered Turkey.<\/p>\n
Turkey has consistently reinforced its border along northwestern Syria, where its military and the YPG regularly exchange rocket fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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