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General Category => World News => Topic started by: TomSea on January 16, 2019, 04:10:23 pm

Title: US-backed forces ready to form international safe zone to protect all ethnic groups
Post by: TomSea on January 16, 2019, 04:10:23 pm

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US-backed forces ready to form international safe zone to protect all ethnic groups
Wladimir van Wilgenburg

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SDF spokesperson Kino Gabriel reads a statement at a base in rural Deir al-Zor province, Syria, Sept. 11, 2018. (Photo: SDF Press)

ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – The US-backed, Syrian Kurdish-led forces say they are ready to help form an international-backed safe zone in northern Syria as long as there is no “foreign intervention,” in reference to a possible Turkish incursion.

In a statement on Wednesday, the General Command of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said they would “offer all the support and necessary aid to form the safe zone that is being circulated regarding the north and east of Syria.”

The statement said the safe zone would “ensure the protection of all ethnic groups and [protect] them from dangers of extermination through an international guarantee.”

Read more at: http://www.kurdistan24.net/en/news/a59b960c-e70b-48d1-a837-71ea1f0f9086 (http://www.kurdistan24.net/en/news/a59b960c-e70b-48d1-a837-71ea1f0f9086)

Spokesman Kino Gabriel, it sounds like there is a good chance, that is a Christian name as Christians are part of the SDF. I could be wrong about the name.