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A contingent of U.S. Special Forces has been caught up in Turkish shelling against U.S.-backed Kurdish positions in northern Syria.
Newsweek has learned through both an Iraqi Kurdish intelligence official and senior Pentagon official that Special Forces operating in the Mashtenour hill in the majority-Kurdish city of Kobani fell under artillery fire from Turkish forces conducting their so-called "Operation Peace Spring" against Kurdish forces backed by the U.S. but considered terrorist organizations by Turkey.
The senior Pentagon official said that Turkish forces should be aware of U.S. positions "down to the grid." The official could not specify the exact number of personnel present, but indicated they were "small numbers below company level," so somewhere between 15 and 100 troops.
The incident came as Defense Secretary Mark Esper assured reporters that up to 50 Special Force Operators had been repositioned from "two small outposts" near the Syrian border as Turkey commenced a unilateral operation opposed by the Pentagon. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had long warned he would storm the border to establish a so-called "safe zone" and, after the White House announced Sunday that U.S. troops would stand aside, he launched the operation earlier this week.
https://www.newsweek.com/us-troops-syria-turkey-1464727
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(10,031 posts)cynatnite
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(52,286 posts)Hugin
(33,180 posts)Unless, of course, it's the Jaundiced Grease Dumpster himself, or maybe, Ivanka, if what's left is no longer sexy.
Edit to add: Boy, those Trumpanzees sure owned the Libs this time. Didn't they?
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(3,064 posts)TheRealNorth
(9,497 posts)When one member attacks another member?
roamer65
(36,747 posts)Attack by any nation, even by another member nation, is considered an attack on all of the rest.
spanone
(135,858 posts)he wouldn't lie, would he?????
Hugin
(33,180 posts)Like right now Wall Street is abuzz with visions of a "partial trade agreement with China."
More greenmail pump and dump.
Some suckers never learn from patterns and Tangerine Idi Amin is full of patterns. He'll say whatever it takes to capture the news cycle. Both sides, if necessary and then Faux runs with whichever version resonates with the Red Cap wearing Baboons.
It's become so predictable and tiresome.