You have commented 339 times on Rantburg.

Your Name
Your e-mail (optional)
Website (optional)
My Original Nic        Pic-a-Nic        Sorry. Comments have been closed on this article.
Bold Italic Underline Strike Bullet Blockquote Small Big Link Squish Foto Photo
Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Coalition: We will continue to stay in Manbij 'until told otherwise'
2018-01-28
[RUDAW.NET] The US-led Coalition who supports the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces in Syria in their fight against ISIS has told Rudaw that they will continue to stay in the Kurdish-held Manbij, just hours after The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund....
warned the United States to remove their troops stationed there immediately.

Colonel Ryan Dillon, spokesperson for the Coalition, told Rudaw TV on Saturday evening that they have been very "transparent" with Turkey over the delivery of equipment to the SDF force within the frame of the ISIS war. He praised the SDF, an alliance of Kurdish and Arab fighters in northern Syria for their war against the murderous Moslem group.

"Turkey knows where our forces are in Manbij, and what they are doing there, and why they are there ‐to prevent any kind of escalation between the groups who are in that area," Dillon said.

Ankara claimed on Saturday that the US National Security Adviser HR McMaster "confirmed" during a Friday phone call with the spokesperson of the Ottoman Turkish presidency that the US will no longer provide weapons to the YPG, the backbone of the SDF force in Syria.

"The Coalition will continue to support our Syrian Democratic Forces in the fight against ISIS. We have said this all along, and we have said this with the Kurdish elements of the SDF. We will provide them equipment as necessary to defeat ISIS," Dillon said of their support to the SDF who spearheaded the operation to liberate areas in northern Syria including Raqqa.

He explained though "This equipment [provided to SDF] is especially for the fight against ISIS."

Turkey’s Foreign Minister also on Saturday requested the US military to remove their troops stationed in Manbij "immediately," a day after President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey...
warned that the so-called Operation Olive Branch may continue all the way to the Iraqi border with Syria including Manbij.
Posted by:Fred

00:00