Sourced: Daily Sabah The Pentagon’s 2019 budget wil include $300 million for the train-and-equip program for the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), predominantly led by the PKK-affiliated People’s Protection Units (YPG), and $250 million for building a “border security force” in Syria, the U.S. government unveiled on Monday. According to the budget bill that President Donald… Continue reading U.S PENTAGON 2019 BUDGET ALLOCATES $550 MILLION FOR YPG
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JAMES MATTIS PLEDGES ERDOGAN US SUPPORT AGAINST PKK
Sourced : Al Monitor By Amberin Zaman US Secretary of Defense James Mattis pledged support to Turkey in its ongoing fight against rebels of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) during talks with the country’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkish and US officials said today. The daylong visit was intended to help smooth fraught relations between… Continue reading JAMES MATTIS PLEDGES ERDOGAN US SUPPORT AGAINST PKK
SYRIA’S NEW NATIONAL SECURITY FORCE PLEDGES LOYALTY TO TURKEY
Sourced : Al-Monitor By : Amberin Zaman When Turkey intervened in northern Syria five months ago, it claimed it had no designs on its former Ottoman dominion and that its only goals were to cleanse its borders of the Islamic State and to eliminate what it called the terrorist threat posed by the People’s Protection… Continue reading SYRIA’S NEW NATIONAL SECURITY FORCE PLEDGES LOYALTY TO TURKEY