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Title: U.S. and Turkish Troops to Patrol Manbij
Post by: rangerrebew on June 10, 2018, 11:46:40 am

U.S. and Turkish Troops to Patrol Manbij
By Associated Press
June 09, 2018

ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey’s defense minister says Turkish and U.S. soldiers will patrol the key northern Syrian town of Manbij as part of a deal reached this week for the withdrawal of a Syrian Kurdish militia.

Speaking in Brussels after a NATO summit late Friday, Defense Minister Nurettin Canikli said he met his American counterpart James Mattis. “We had a very detailed, constructive and positive meeting on the Manbij roadmap,” he said.

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