{"id":1660,"date":"2017-03-02T13:44:44","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T13:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=1660"},"modified":"2017-03-02T13:46:59","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T13:46:59","slug":"manbij-forces-reaches-agreement-with-russia-over-defence-against-turkey-backed-fsa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2017\/03\/02\/manbij-forces-reaches-agreement-with-russia-over-defence-against-turkey-backed-fsa\/","title":{"rendered":"MANBIJ FORCES REACHES AGREEMENT WITH RUSSIA OVER DEFENCE AGAINST TURKEY BACKED FSA"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Manbij Military Council (MMC) has made a statement saying it has reached an agreement with Russia to transfer the defence of the line to the west of Manbij (Arima) to Syrian government forces.<\/p>\n

The statement by the MMC, a component of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on Thursday read:<\/p>\n

\u201cProtecting civilians from the negative affects of war, defending Manbij\u2019s security and nullifying Turkey\u2019s invasion plans in Syria are some of the objectives the Manbij Military Council has for all the peoples of Syria.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo reach these objectives we have transferred, after reaching a new alliance [agreement] with Russia, the defence of the line to the west of Manbij \u2013 where the villages between us and the gang groups [FSA] affiliated to the Turkish army are \u2013 to Syrian state forces.\u201d<\/p>\n

Clashes have continued between Turkish-backed FSA groups and MMC fighters since Wednesday on the western and northwestern border of Manbij.<\/p>\n

Turkey\u2019s Euphrates Shield operation, which was launched in August 2016, captured al-Bab from the Islamic State (IS) group last week, but has now reached areas held by Syrian government forces in the south and SDF positions in the west. Turkey has said its forces will attack Manbij to take the town from the Kurdish People\u2019s Protection Units (YPG), a major component of the SDF, which it considers a \u2018terrorist organisation\u2019. The YPG has denied it has fighters in Manbij.<\/p>\n

A claim by US General Stephen Townsend that a Russian airstrike had hit SDF positions in the Manbij countryside on Wednesday night was denied by the Russian Defence Ministry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sourced KOM News The Manbij Military Council (MMC) has made a statement saying it has reached an agreement with Russia to transfer the defence of the line to the west of Manbij (Arima) to Syrian government forces. The statement by the MMC, a component of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on Thursday read: \u201cProtecting civilians… Continue reading MANBIJ FORCES REACHES AGREEMENT WITH RUSSIA OVER DEFENCE AGAINST TURKEY BACKED FSA<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1663,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[805,669,652],"class_list":["post-1660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conflict","tag-manbij","tag-russian-defence-ministry","tag-syrian-democratic-forces-sdf","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1660"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1664,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660\/revisions\/1664"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}