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Turkish jets bomb US-backed forces in Iraq, Syria
[FOXNEWS] More than 30 U.S.-backed Syrian and Iraqi Kurdish fighters were killed in a series of Dozens of fighters were also maimed in the strikes. Both officials said there were no U.S. troops among the fighters who were hit. The closest U.S. soldiers were about six miles from the site of the strikes. "This is very serious," said one outraged U.S. official. U.S. and Russian troops in the areas of the attacks were warned about an hour before 24 Turkish jets and two Turkish drones bombed locations in northern Iraq and northeast Syria. Senior Russian officials contacted U.S. counterparts to try to get ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... to back off the strikes, but those pleas were ignored by the Turks, officials said. Posted by: Fred 2017-04-26 |
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