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US military calls on Kurdish forces in northeast Syria |
2019-11-03 |
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] US military vehicles on Saturday entered a Kurdish-held area in northeastern Syria and met with officials, AFP correspondents and a local source said, in the second such visit since an announced US pullout from the Beige-colored armored vehicles flying the American flag pulled up at the headquarters of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces outside the city of Qamishli. They also passed by the People’s Protection Units (YPG) who have spearheaded the SDF, and Kurdish security forces in the area. Two days earlier, a similar US convoy was seen further east along the border, outside the town of Qahtaniyah, in an area they used to operate in before Washington announced a military pullout last month. A US-led coalition has for years backed the SDF in fighting the ISIS ...embracing their inner Islamic Brute... group, but the announcement of an American withdrawal triggered a deadly A source who took part in one of the Kurdish-US meetings on Saturday said the Americans wanted to return to Qamishli. "They’re coming to set up a major military post in Qamishli," the source told AFP. |
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