US says will not withdraw troops from Syria's Manbij

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US says will not withdraw troops from Syria's Manbij
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Gen. Joseph Votel, head of the US Central Command, said on Sunday that American troops will not be withdrawn from Manbij, a strategically important city in northern Syria.

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu on Saturday called on the US to withdraw personnel from the Kurdish-held town of Manbij amid tension that escalated between Ankara and Washington following Turkey’s operation in the Kurdish-controlled Afrin region of Syria.

Gen. Votel told CNN that that withdrawing US forces from Manbij is “not something we are looking into.”

Read more at: https://www.turkishminute.com/2018/01/29/us-says-will-not-withdraw-troops-from-syrias-manbij/