Posted on 10/18/2019 1:33:20 AM PDT by FRinCanada2
https://www.foxnews.com/world/fighting-breaks-out-in-syrian-town-despite-cease-fire-reporters-say
Just hours after President Trump announced a cease-fire between Turkish and Kurdish-led forces in Syria, journalists have reported continued fighting in the Syrian town of Ras al-Ayn on Friday morning, while other areas have reported relative calm since the agreement.
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Or there are various factions labeled “Kurds” in the area; those allied with the USA, ie. the “Syrian” Kurds will leave as agreed but the PKK will not. PKK groups are actually the target of the Turkish government, not the others. [PKK is on our government’s list of terrorist groups.]
Now will the media explain what is happening on the ground? My guess is that today we will probably hear Turkey’s agreement yesterday was deceitful despite the clear language in the announcements by VP Pense and the Turkish government to distinguish the factions in the agreement.
The President explained this in a press conference earlier in the week but it wasn’t broadcast except on Fox. Even Fox is not following through with it in their reporting.
Or there are various factions labeled “Kurds” in the area; those allied with the USA, ie. the “Syrian” Kurds will leave as agreed but the PKK will not. PKK groups are actually the target of the Turkish government, not the others. [PKK is on our government’s list of terrorist groups.]
Now will the media explain what is happening on the ground? Today we will probably hear Turkey’s agreement yesterday was deceitful despite the clear language in the announcements by VP Pense and the Turkish government to distinguish the factions in the agreement.
Kurdish officials are saying they will abide by the terms of the U.S.-Turkish ceasefire in Syria, except for one provision of that deal. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said Thursday they will observe the ceasefire in the towns of Ras Alain and Tal Abyad. The SDF did not agree to withdraw Kurdish militias 20 miles from the Turkish border. Kurdish officials said they will continue working with Russia and President Bashar Al-Assad to defend their territories.
Just glad our people are not in this quagmire any more, Thank you President Trump. Promise made, promise kept. Now let’s get our asses out of Saudi Arabia, where we are not appreciated.
Predictable?
Here’s our first clue: ‘journalists say...’
They just revel in ANY little manufactured crisis they can invent to slam our President.
*SPIT*
We should offer all the Kurds citizenship in California.
Our special relationship with the SDF was a left over gift from Obama and John McCain. There seems to be more than one Senator who might love the SDF more than our own soldiers.
lol. I’m sure everyone reading this feels the same way. However comma the next few days will show is US influence in the region is only relevant if we have troops actually there or if we can be relevant but not actually engaged physically. Pass the Popcorn ?
Perhaps it is just the Chicago of the area?
Let the Russians deal with it.
The Kurds already forced the Syrians to leave, and that’s one of the reasons the largest percentage of “asylum seekers” (illegal immigrants and boat people) are Syrians.
The EU has made Turkey take them, Turkey doesn’t want them, and one of the purposes of this is to be able to send the Syrians back. Hopefully, there will be a territory that will accommodate both groups, but the Kurds (many of whom are PKK, the militant Kurdish Communist group) will have to settle down and stop their attacks. It works both ways, unfortunately, because everything is so insane there, and that’s why I think Trump was right to get us out.
Oh looky. Muslims are killing each other again. What a shock.
Is that sarcasm I detect without an appropriate /sarcasm tag?
The important thing is have they stopped bombing Kentucky.
Fauxnews mentions it came from reuters but didn’t give a link. Odd. I went to reuters and saw only one Syria article on the front page and this is certainly front page news. From that article
“”” Reuters journalists at the border heard machine-gun fire and shelling and saw smoke rising from the Syrian border battlefield city of Ras al Ain early on Friday, although the sounds of fighting later subsided by mid-morning. “””
“”” The SDF said air and artillery attacks continued to target its positions as well as civilian targets in Ral al Ain: “Turkey is violating the ceasefire agreement by continuing to attack the town since last night,” SDF spokesman Mustafa Bali tweeted. “””
“The SDF said”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_Democratic_Forces
an alliance in the Syrian Civil War[107] composed primarily of Kurdish, Arab, and Assyrian/Syriac militias, as well as some smaller Armenian, Turkmen and Chechen forces.[108][8] The SDF is militarily led by the People’s Protection Units (YPG), a mostly Kurdish militia.[109] Founded in October 2015, the SDF states its mission as fighting to create a secular, democratic and decentralized Syria. The updated December 2016 constitution of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (NES) names the SDF as its official defence force.[110]
(The SDF is militarily led by the People’s Protection Units (YPG))
(an arm of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which is designated as a terrorist group by the Federal government of the United States.)
People’s Protection Units = YPG & PKK
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Protection_Units
According to United States Army Special Forces Commander General Raymond A. Thomas at the Aspen Security Forum in July 2017, the SDF is a PR-friendly name for the YPG, which Thomas personally suggested because the YPG is considered an arm of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which is designated as a terrorist group by the Federal government of the United States.[111][112] American Defense Secretary Ashton Carter confirmed “substantial ties” between the PYD/YPG and the PKK.[113] Testifying to the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee Congress, Director of National Intelligence Daniel Coats, the top U.S. intelligence official, explicitly defined the YPG as the “PKK’s militia force in Syria”
So “the SDF said”(and reuters listened) and the SDF is led by the YPG which is an arm of the PKK who are the communists that obama the Marxist trained and armed
What a mess
“The important thing is they have stopped bombing Kentucky!”
Thank the Lord for that!!
I don’t care if everyone there kills each other.
Not even a little bit.
Some of us have kids who could be deployed to Syria if warmongers have their way, and if something happens to them, that won’t make the lives of people living in Syria any better. I will always remember the “bipartisan” House vote condemning Trump’s withdrawal from Syria.
I think the reason most asylum seekers are Syrians is because there's been a bloody civil war going on all over the country for the past 8-plus years. The Kurds have only been a small part of the Assad opposition.
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