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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
US, Turkey Stage Joint Patrols in Northeast Syria
2019-09-26
[AnNahar] The US and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
launched a second round of joint patrols in northeastern Syria on Tuesday as part of plans to create a "safe" buffer zone, the Ottoman Turkish defence ministry said.

Four Ottoman Turkish armoured vehicles crossed the border to join US forces in Syria, state news agency Anadolu said, for patrols around the town of Tal Abyad.

The ministry said drones were also deployed.

Washington and Ankara reached a deal last month to establish a safe zone between the Ottoman Turkish border and Syrian areas east of the Euphrates river controlled by the Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG).

The first joint patrols were conducted on September 8.
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