“What can we tell them?”: US general pressed for reassurance for SDF after Syria withdrawal decision

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“What can we tell them?”: US general pressed for reassurance for SDF after Syria withdrawal decision
Days later, SDF officials say they have received no assurances of protection or security from the US government as their fight against ISIS continues in eastern Syria
Jared Szuba Jared Szuba December 23, 2018

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region of Iraq – The top American commander of the Defeat-ISIS mission in Iraq and Syria was left without direction on what to tell the main U.S. partner force on the ground in Syria after he was ordered to begin preparations to withdraw all U.S. troops from the country.

In conversations with a senior State Department official on Wednesday, Lieutenant General Paul LaCamera repeatedly asked what he was supposed to tell the commander-in-chief of the Syrian Democratic Forces, General Mazlum Kobani, about whether or not the U.S. planned to support the Kurdish general’s forces after the imminent American withdrawal, according to details of the conversations provided to The Defense Post.

Mazlum’s women and men, who have seized swaths of territory across northern Syria and decimated the Islamic State with support of the U.S.-led Coalition, are now facing the impending threat of a hostile Turkish military offensive coordinated with the imminent withdrawal of some 2,000 U.S. troops.

Read more at: https://thedefensepost.com/2018/12/23/us-syria-withdrawal-general-sdf-reassurance/

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