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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
US to focus on 'priorities' in Kurdish-populated northeast Syria: Officials
2018-05-20
[PRESSTV] Informed US officials say the administration of President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
will step up its activities in the Kurdish-populated northeastern Syria, reinforcing fears of the Arab country's partition and mounting tensions with The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund....
The unidentified officials said on Friday that the US government had decided to shift its focus from terrorist-held northwestern Syria to the Kurdish-inhabited northeast.

CBS News quoted the officials as saying that the decision was made over the last few weeks following Trump's call for a review of all US operations in Syria.

Tens of millions of dollars will be cut from previous US programs, including projects for "countering violent extremism, supporting independent society and independent media, strengthening education, and advocating for community policing," CBS reported.

A State Department official told Rooters, "US assistance for programs in northwest Syria are being freed up to provide potential increased support for priorities in northeast Syria."

A second source also noted that Washington wanted to move the assistance to the areas in Syria where the US had more control.

US officials, however, claimed that "humanitarian assistance" would not be affected in northwestern Syria around Idlib Province, the last major stronghold for Takfiri
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed...
bully boyz in the country.

Washington has stepped up its alliance with Kurdish forces active in Syria despite opposition by Turkey that is worried about the formation of an autonomous Kurdish state on its borders.

Posted by:Fred

#1  Give Lebanon to Syria as they own much of it already and since the Turks won't play give north Syria to the Kurds.
Posted by: Skidmark   2018-05-20 15:47  

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