{"id":4851,"date":"2019-08-06T05:38:23","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T05:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=4851"},"modified":"2019-08-06T05:38:23","modified_gmt":"2019-08-06T05:38:23","slug":"syrian-rebels-say-ready-to-back-turkish-led-operation-in-northeast-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2019\/08\/06\/syrian-rebels-say-ready-to-back-turkish-led-operation-in-northeast-syria\/","title":{"rendered":"SYRIAN REBELS SAY READY TO BACK TURKISH-LED OPERATION IN NORTHEAST SYRIA"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Source: Reuters<\/p>\n

By Suleiman Al-Khalidi<\/p>\n

AMMAN, Aug 5 (Reuters) – Syrian rebel commanders said on Monday they are ready to join Turkish troops in an offensive to seize back largely Arab-populated towns and villages in northeast Syria held by Kurdish-led-forces.<\/p>\n

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday his country, which already has a foothold in northwest Syria, will carry out a military operation in a Kurdish-controlled area east of the Euphrates in northern Syria.<\/p>\n

Turkey had in the past warned of carrying out military operations east of the river but put them on hold after agreeing with the United States to create a safe zone inside Syria’s northeastern border with Turkey that would be cleared of the Kurdish YPG militia.<\/p>\n

The spokesman for the National Army, a Turkey-backed rebel grouping, said a 14,000 strong force was ready to start a campaign against the YPG militia that rules vast swathes of northeast Syria.<\/p>\n

Read more at: https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/syrian-rebels-ready-back-turkish-182140681.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: Reuters By Suleiman Al-Khalidi AMMAN, Aug 5 (Reuters) – Syrian rebel commanders said on Monday they are ready to join Turkish troops in an offensive to seize back largely Arab-populated towns and villages in northeast Syria held by Kurdish-led-forces. Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday his country, which already has a foothold in… Continue reading SYRIAN REBELS SAY READY TO BACK TURKISH-LED OPERATION IN NORTHEAST SYRIA<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4652,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conflict","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4851","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=4851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4852,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4851\/revisions\/4852"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}