, " Commander Shirin Abdullah , YPJ spokeswoman , said . YPJ is the all - female brigade of the Syrian Kurdish People 's Protection Unit ( YPG ) — both of which are the armed wings of a Kurdish coalition that has taken de facto control over much of Syria 's predominantly Kurdish north , Rojava . Antar , a machine gunner and a feminist , was one among the female Kurdish fighters guarding the village of al - Yashli when the militants launched the attack .
But it had been plain for nearly as long that the proto - fascist Erdoğan intended to turn this policy to his own purposes , which no one of any decency could countenance . Seymour Hersh ’s pieces in the London Review of Books have been revelatory in this context . In April 2014 he gave persuasive evidence that , in an attempt to frame Assad , Erdoğan provided extremist Sunni militias with the crudely concocted poison gas that explodedconflict.attack.bombingin a Damascus suburb the previous August . In his latest piece , Hersh documents the Pentagon ’s many failed efforts to pull the administration off its obsession with developing a coup in Damascus and recognize Islamic terrorists as the threat that matters in Syria . “ The assessment was bleak , ” Hersh writes of a classified document the Joint Chiefs brass sent the White House in 2013 .
The video was broadcast just after analyst reports said North Korea had made a fourth failed attempt in two months to test - launch the Musudan — a missile designed to strike at targets as distant as Guam and the Philippines . The missile exploded on launch . Earlier on April 15 , North Korea 's military attempted a launch from a mobile launching system , but it explodedconflict.attack.bombingshortly after liftoff . Just two weeks later , as North Korea was preparing for the congress of the Worker 's Party , there was an attempt at a dual launch — with both missiles crashing into the sea . The Musudan , also known as the BM-25 , was introduced in 2003 .
The Latest on Paris security operation on Champs - Elysees ( all times local ) : 4:55 p.m. A French security official says that the attacker on Champs - Elysees avenue is probably dead and the bomb squad is on the scene . Interior Ministry spokesman Pierre - Henry Brandet says the driver whose car explodedconflict.attack.bombingas he tried to ram a police vehicle is ' most probably ' dead . Brandet said bomb squads were still securing the scene . He said the attacker appeared to have acted deliberately .
An explosion at the Chinese Embassy in the Kyrgyzstan capital Bishkek left several dead and injured on Tuesday ( Aug 30 ) , according to the local emergency ministry . BISHKEK : A car driven by a suicide bomber on Tuesday ( Aug 30 ) explodedconflict.attack.bombingafter ramming a gate at the Chinese embassy in the capital of ex - Soviet Kyrgyzstan , wounding three people , the healthcare ministry said . " As a result of the explosion only the suicide bomber terrorist died . Security guards were injured , " Kyrgyzstan 's Deputy Prime Minister Jenish Razakov told journalists .
The suicide bombers were also killed . Bozdag said one attacker “ first opened fire with a Kalashnikov then detonated himself ” at the airport entrance . — In total three bombs explodedconflict.attack.bombing, the governor told TRT . – One of them was located just outside a terminal on the pavement , while the other was at the security gate at the entrance to the airport , Bozdag told CNN . — Authorities said no bombs exploded within airport buildings , according to the minister .
“ The response of the past weeks speaks for itself . ” On Wednesday , a mortar shell fired from Syria struck the northern Golan Heights . The projectile , the latest of a series of apparently errant rounds to hit Israel in recent days , explodedconflict.attack.bombingin an open field near Israel ’s border with Syria , causing no casualties or damage , the Israel Defense Forces said in a statement . It was the sixth such incident this week and came as fighting between President Bashar Assad ’s regime and the numerous rebel groups in southern Syria escalated in recent weeks . In response to the incidents , Israeli jets have targeted Syrian regime artillery batteries near the border several times , though there were no reports of any Israeli response in Syria Wednesday .