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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
US-Led Coalition Helps Build New Syrian Force, Angering Turkey
2018-01-15
[VOA News] The U.S.-led coalition is working with its Syrian militia allies to set up a new border force of 30,000 personnel, the coalition said on Sunday, a move that has added to Ottoman Turkish anger over U.S. support for Kurdish-dominated forces in Syria.

A senior Ottoman Turkish official told Rooters the U.S. training of the new "Border Security Force" is the reason that the U.S. charge d'affaires was summoned in Ankara on Wednesday. The official did not elaborate.

The force, whose inaugural class is currently being trained, will be deployed at the borders of the area controlled by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) ‐ an alliance of militias in northern and eastern Syria dominated by the Kurdish YPG.
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