US says Washington to continue arming YPG after liberating Raqqa from ISIL
By TM - June 27, 2017
US Secretary of Defense James Mattis waits to greet Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko outside the Pentagon on June 20, 2017 in Washington, DC. / AFP PHOTO / Brendan Smialowski
US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said on Tuesday that the US military would continue to provide weapons to the Syrian Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) even after ousting the Islamic State in Iraq and Levant (ISIL) from Raqqa.
Speaking to journalists during his flight to Germany on Tuesday, Mattis said US reassurances to Turkey to take weapons back from the YPG after the war on ISIL depends on when and where the next mission is.
When asked if all the weapons would be returned, he said, “We’ll do what we can.”
Continued: https://www.turkishminute.com/2017/06/27/us-says-washington-to-continue-arming-ypg-after-liberating-raqqa-from-isil/
It is amazing that Raqqa is really, the world capital for ISIS, and troops we are supporting are the ones "liberating" it. A lot of brave men and women.
