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| Pentagon: 'Unacceptable' if Kurds displacing local Syrians |
| 2015-06-17 |
| [AA.TR] The Pentagon said Tuesday it's "unacceptable" if Syrian Kurdish fighters push Arabs and Turkmens out of their lands amid a fight against Daesh. Thousands of Syrian Arabs and Turkmens began flowing into ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... last week as Kurdish fighters conducted an offensive against Daesh in Tell Abyad, a stronghold of Daesh, giving rise to claims that the fighters are ethnically cleansing local communities by forcing their displacement. "We certainly have seen these reports, and it is something that we are watching for," said Pentagon front man Col. Steve Warren. "Without question it is something that we'll find out unacceptable, if true." The Kurdish fighters, known as People's Protection Units (YPG), have been backed by U.S.-led coalition According to the coalition unit leading anti -Daesh operations, at least 90 "As the Kurdish forces have moved to west [from al-Hassakeh northeastern Syria to Tell Abyad) the Warren also said the capture of Tell Abyad was a strategic gain in terms of closing an important route for the fighters and there are still several other routes that could be used to access al-Raqqah. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 The Brass Hats apparently had someone else in mind. |
| Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 2015-06-17 19:59 |
| #2 Did whoever wrote this ever stop and think that the ones running from the Kurds were the same ones supporting ISIS - that's why they are being pushed out? Duh. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2015-06-17 16:03 |
| #1 great. Just great. et's handcuff the only respectable party here with our ROE and Proggy Morals |
| Posted by: Frank G 2015-06-17 11:17 |