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Report: Turkey-backed militia attacks American troops in Syria
2019-11-04
[Ynet] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...Qatar's satrapy in Asia Minor...
-backed militia fighters have attacked U.S. forces in Syria advancing toward the border with Iraq, so said the Russian Foreign Ministry, quoted in the news agency RT. There were no casualties in the incident, said the Russian Foreign Ministry on Sunday and quoted by the news agency RT.
Posted by:trailing wife

#5  Russians said Syrians backed by Turkey attacked US forces, no casualties...

It never happened. It's just a story to pry Erdogan farther into Russia's orbit.
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2019-11-04 23:04  

#4  Call in an airstrike and 'accidentally' destroy teh living crap out of them and it won't happen again.
Posted by: ruprecht   2019-11-04 19:22  

#3  Not a healthy course of action.
Posted by: DarthVader   2019-11-04 08:46  

#2  Perhaps less fog of war and more plausible deniability. Yip-yip wants street cred with the Ummah (Um-er?) for standing up to the Great Shaitan.
Posted by: Mercutio   2019-11-04 08:37  

#1  Fog of war.
Posted by: Uleck Spererong9442   2019-11-04 06:46  

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