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US plans decades-long military presence in northern Syria: SDF
[Iran Press TV] A US-backed militia group in northern Syria says American forces plan to remain in the Arab state "for decades to come" after the fall of ISIS, adding that Washington is not providing support to anti-Damascus In a Thursday report by Rooters, Talal Silo, the front man for the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), an alliance of militias dominated by the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), said the SDF believes that Washington has "strategic interests here after the end of ISIS." "They have a strategy policy for decades to come. There will be military, economic and political agreements in the long term between the leadership of the northern areas (of Syria)... and the US administration," Silo said. The Kurdish-dominated SDF holds 400-kilometer (250-mile) stretch of the Syrian- The SDF is involved in an operation against ISIS bully boyz in Raqqah Province. In July, the head of the YPG said the US had established seven military bases in northern Syria, including a major air base near the border town of Kobani. Posted by: Fred 2017-08-19 |
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