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| U.S.-allied militia agrees to hand villages to Syrian govt |
| 2017-03-03 |
| [Iraq News] A U.S.-allied militia in northern Syria said on Thursday it would hand over villages on a front line where it has been fighting Turkish-backed rebels to Syrian government control, under an agreement with Russia. The villages will be surrendered to the Syrian government in the coming days, an official in the Manbij Military Council told Rooters. An earlier statement by the council said the villages would be handed to Syrian border guards. ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... ’s Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told news hounds in Ankara the report was false, but added there was an agreement with Russia that Syrian government and opposition forces should not fight each other in that area. The villages west of the city of Manbij have been a focus of fighting between the Turkish-backed rebels and the Manbij Military Council, the U.S.-allied militia, since Wednesday. Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said this week Manbij was the next target of Ankara’s campaign in northern Syria following the capture of nearby al-Bab from Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... last week. "We will move towards Manbij after the al-Bab operation is completed, but the operation has not started yet. We know that the U.S. special forces are in that region, and we want the YPG to leave Manbij as soon as possible," Cavusoglu said. The Manbij Military Council is part of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a U.S.-backed group of militias that includes the powerful Kurdish YPG group. The SDF captured the area around Manbij from Islamic State Death Eaters last year. Turkey’s campaign in Syria is aimed at driving Islamic State from its border and at preventing expansion in the area by the YPG, which it regards as an extension of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which is waging an insurgency against Ankara. Cavusoglu said Turkey did not want the United States to continue cooperating with Kurdish groups and added that Turkey had repeatedly warned it would strike Kurdish Death Eaters if they remained in Manbij. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 So the US fights Assad and terrorists haha and then Assad gets back his land awesome tactic never saw that coming! |
| Posted by: Crinegum Ulaigum2776 2017-03-03 08:03 |