As of now this has yet to be confirmed.
HAPPENING RIGHT NOW: Tanks From Turkey Crossing Syria Border to Attack Kurds
25
December, 2018
5:54
PM EST - Sun. Dec 25 -- Turkish Army Leopard 2A4 tanks have
crossed the Syrian border near Jarabulus tonight to attack the
Kurdish YPG in Manbij.
US
TROOPS ARE STILL EMBEDDED WITH THOSE YPG KURDS!
Earlier
today, the Syria Arab Army quick-relocated very many troops toward
Manbij because of the feared Turk invasion.
Whether
the SAA will fight alongside the Turks or the YPG is not known.
If
the SAA sides with the YPG, then by default, they would also be
siding with . . . AMERICAN TROOPS.
If,
however, the SAA sides with Turkey, then we could see a combined
Turk/Syrian joint attack upon the YPG, with
US Forces being smashed at the same time.
This
has disaster written all over it.
This
is a developing story, please check back for updates.
UPDATE 7:38 PM EST --
Turkey
Says US Agreed To Vacate Syrian Kurdish Enclave As Ground Attack
Imminent
Turkey
Says US Agreed To Vacate Syrian Kurdish Enclave As Ground Attack
Imminent
25
December, 2018
On
Christmas Eve the White House announced in a statement that President
Trump is open to a "potential
meeting in the future" with Turkish President Recep Tayyip
Erdogan.
The statement noted Turkey's president had formally invited Trump to
meet in 2019, though nothing specific or definite has been planned.
This
comes after it was revealed that in a Dec. 14 phone call between the
two leaders Trump
said the US was "done" with Syria. Trump's
senior aides later revealed the decision for a "full"
and "immediate" pullout of the some 2000+ American military
personnel training and advising Kurdish-Arab SDF forces in north-east
Syria was made after the phone call, and curiously the
U.S. State Department approved the sale of $3.5 billion
in patriot missiles to Turkey the day after.
According
to a senior administration official who spoke
to CNN,
Trump told Erdogan, "OK,
it's all yours. We are done," in
reference to Syria. The president sought assurances from Erdogan that
Turkey would finish off remnant ISIS cells in eastern Syria, per
the CNN
report:
A senior White House official said Erdogan gave Trump his "word" that Turkey would finish off ISIS.
"In the call on Friday, Erdogan said to the President, 'In fact, as your friend, I give you my word in this,'" the senior White House official said.
While
giving a speech last Friday Erdogan revealed some of the details of
the call, saying,
"During a conversation I had with Mr. Trump — he
said 'ISIS, can you clear ISIS from this area?'" Erdogan
recalled further: "We did it before, and we can again as
long as we have logistic support from you... And so they began
pulling out." Erdogan added: "Within
the framework of the phone call we had with Mr. Trump, we have
started preparing plans for operations to clear the ISIS elements
still within Syria."
Trump,
for his part, subsequently confirmed in a weekend tweet: "I
just had a long and productive call with President Erdogan of Turkey.
We discussed ISIS, our mutual involvement in Syria, & the slow &
highly coordinated pullout of U.S. troops from the area. After many
years they are coming home. We also discussed heavily expanded
Trade."
Meanwhile a
major Turkish Army and Turkish-backed rebel assault on the key Syrian
Kurdish stronghold of Manbij is imminent.
Turkey has been reported over the past days to be mustering large
forces, including hundreds of vehicles and troops surrounding the
northwestern Syrian town, around Manbij.
Turkey
has long demanded US advisers to withdraw and to clear the town of
armed Syrian Kurdish groups, specifically the YPG, which forms the
core of the US-backed SDF but which Ankara sees as an extension of
the outlawed terror group, the PKK.
The convoy of around 200 vehicles, including howitzers, armored personnel carriers and artillery, advanced to reinforce the military’s presence in areas close to Manbij, TRT said on Sunday. They were joined by forces of the Free Syrian Army, which has backed Turkish offensives against Syrian Kurdish militants, state-run Anadolu Agency said Monday.
However,
as a potential bloodbath is set to ensue, on Tuesday morning
Turkey's foreign minister announced the
United States has agreed
to complete a previously discussed "roadmap" for the
removal of all Kurdish militia fighters from the Northern Syrian
town before American forces clear out.
Though
the US side has yet to confirm Turkey's latest claims, it appears the
handover of Manbij to Turkey has begun following prior threats from
Erdogan to "cleanse" the region of all Kurdish resistance.
https://southfront.org/russia-restric...
https://southfront.org/russia-reconst...
US
Syrian Pull-Out is it Linked to an Iranian Strike
Russia
and Ukraine sit at the brink of conflict, the US has pulled out of
Syria leaving the Kurds fate in the hands of Erdogan. But was this
all staged for a preemptive strike on Iran.
The US strike group enters the Persian Gulf at very eerie time.
The US strike group enters the Persian Gulf at very eerie time.
https://southfront.org/russia-reconst...
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