2/29/16 (Photo: Turkish Commados) Turkish Commandos & ISIS Fighters Probe Kurdish Syria, Prep for Invasion. Gregory Copley, Editor Defense & Foreign Affairs. URGENT: From GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs sources embedded with Kurdish forces. Exclusive reports from GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs first-hand sources within Kurdish forces in northern Syria re-ported on February 29, 2016, that some 200 Turkish commando forces, believed to have been attached to the Turkish Second Army, broke the ceasefire in northern Syria on the morning of February 28, 2016, accompanied by approximately 400 fighters from DI’ISH (Islamic State: asad-Dawlah al-Islāmīyah fī al-‘Irāq wash-Shām), attacking the Syrian Kurdish town of Tell Abyad, on the Syria-Turkish border, in the al-Raqqah Governorate. This was the scene, in May-July 2015, of a major Syrian Kurdish YPG (People’s Protection Units: Yekîneyên Parastina Gel) military success known as the Tell Abyad offensive or Martyr Rubar Qamışlo operation. The new combined Turkish Army/DI’ISH attack on Tell Abyad and YPG positions began at 05.00hrs local on February 28, 2016, and was supported by heavy artillery fire from 24 Turkish Army T-155 Fırtına (Storm) 155mm self-propelled howitzers.