YPG release balance sheet of war for 2013

YPG release balance sheet of war for 2013

People's Defense Units (YPG) Press Office has released its war-balance sheet for the year 2013 in West Kurdistan.

According to the balance-sheet of war, 376 soldiers of Syrian regime forces and 2923 members of the al-Qaeda linked ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham) and al-Nusra Front were killed in clashes with YPG fighters this year. Clashes throughout the year also left 379 members of the YPG and YPJ (Women's Defense Units) dead.

YPG Press Office remarked that their fighters took 790 soldiers and police officers of Syrian security forces prisoner, and later released many of them, or delivered them to their families.

YPG fighters also arrested 587 members of the al-Qaeda linked ISIS and al-Nusra Front attacking Kurds in Rojava. YPG said 91 out of these 587 gang members fighting in Syria were foreign.

According to the balance-sheet of war, 379 YPG and YPJ members lost their life as a result of artillery attacks, torture, bomb attacks and clashes during the year.

YPG fighters also seized a large number of military munitions of the gang groups, included 12 tanks, 68 anti-aircraft weapons, 35 rocket launchers, 980 rockets, 2967 kalashnikov weapons.