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Offline TomSea

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Turkey warns US troops over Syria clash risk
« on: February 04, 2018, 09:34:48 pm »
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Turkey warns US troops over Syria clash risk

Turkey on January 20 launched the "Olive Branch" operation in the northern Syrian region of Afrin, fighting Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) militia which Ankara sees as a terror group.

With the YPG a key ally of Washington in the battle against jihadists, the campaign has seen a fellow NATO partner of the United States fighting an openly US-backed and US-armed force.

Beyond the northwestern enclave of Afrin, the YPG also controls the key strategic town of Manbij to the east and then a long strip of territory east of the Euphrates up to the Iraqi border.

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Re: Turkey warns US troops over Syria clash risk
« Reply #1 on: February 04, 2018, 09:48:09 pm »
Turkey is not our friend. Period.