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Dans des combats récents en Turquie entre armée turque et PKK un hélicoptère s’est crashé, selon les autorités turques pour cause de problème technique :
▻http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/05/13/world/europe/ap-eu-turkey-kurds.html

ANKARA, Turkey — Eight Turkish military personnel have died in combat with Kurdish rebels and in a subsequent helicopter crash near the country’s border with Iraq, the military said Friday. At least six rebels were also killed in the fighting.
Clashes broke out early Friday with rebels of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, near the town of Cukurca, in Hakkari province, killing six soldiers, a military statement said. Eight other soldiers were wounded.
A military helicopter sent to the area to support the soldiers later crashed, killing its two pilots, the military said, adding that the crash was due to a technical fault .

Et puis est apparue cette vidéo (visionner à partir de 4’11) :
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCM3d4nkUmk

Certains ont identifié le missile sol-air portatif comme étant de la gamme Igla, de fabrication russe, dénomination SA par les USA : ▻https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/9K38_Igla
Question à mille points, ce missile a-t-il été obtenu par le PKK via la Russie ou bien auprès des rebelles syriens (achat ou prise de guerre du PYD), comme MoA en souligne la possibilité, à partir d’un article du New York Times ?
▻http://www.moonofalabama.org/2016/05/manpad-used-by-pkk-against-turkish-helicopter-may-have-come-from-rebe

Toujours est-il que les opérations de contre-guerilla de l’armée turque vont singulièrement se compliquer si le PKK dispose effectivement de ces armes...

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Top Lebanese Hezbollah Military Commander Killed in Syria - The New York Times
▻http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/05/13/world/middleeast/ap-ml-lebanon-hezbollah.html

Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group said Friday that its top military commander who was supervising its military operations in Syria, Mustafa Badreddine, was killed in an explosion in Damascus, a major blow to the Shiite group which has played a significant role in the conflict next door.

Badreddine, 55, had been the mastermind of the group’s involvement in Syria’s civil war since Hezbollah fighters joined the battle on the side of Syrian President Bashar Assad’s forces against those trying to remove him from power, according to pro-Hezbollah media. Hezbollah, along with Iran, has been one of Assad’s strongest backers.

Hezbollah said several others were wounded in the blast and that it was investigating the nature of the explosion and whether it was the result of an air raid, missile attack or artillery shelling. It didn’t say when the explosion happened.

The Beirut-based Al-Mayadeen TV, which is close to the Lebanese Shiite group, earlier said Badreddine was killed in an Israeli airstrike but later removed the report.