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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,063 posts)
Sun Oct 13, 2019, 07:54 PM Oct 2019

U. S.-allied Kurds strike deal to bring Assad's Syrian troops back into Kurdish areas

Source: Washington Post

BEIRUT — Syrian government troops began moving toward towns near the Turkish border Sunday night under a deal struck with Syrian Kurds, following a chaotic day that saw the unraveling of the U.S. mission in northeastern Syria.

Hundreds of Islamic State family members escaped a detention camp after Turkish shellfire hit the area, U.S. troops pulled out from another base and Turkish-backed forces consolidated their hold over a vital highway, cutting the main U.S. supply route into Syria.

By the time Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper appeared on CBS’s “Face the Nation” to announce that President Trump had ordered the final withdrawal of the 1,000 U.S. troops in northeastern Syria, it was already clear that the U.S. presence had become unsustainable, U.S. officials said.

The announcement by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) that they had reached an agreement with the Iranian- and Russian-backed government of President Bashar al-Assad further undermined the prospect of any continued U.S. presence in the country. The deal will bring forces loyal to Assad back into towns and cities that have been under Kurdish control for seven years.



Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/us-troops-withdraw-from-another-syrian-town-as-turkish-forces-block-supply-lines/2019/10/13/aab5fab8-ec5a-11e9-a329-7378fbfa1b63_story.html?wpisrc=al_news__alert-world--alert-national&wpmk=1

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U. S.-allied Kurds strike deal to bring Assad's Syrian troops back into Kurdish areas (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2019 OP
War makes strange bedfellows! eom at140 Oct 2019 #1
Putin wins again. dem4decades Oct 2019 #2
He might win even more if what I suspect is going to happen which is we are probably going to see cstanleytech Oct 2019 #9
Maybe Trump can finally finish Trump International Hotel & Tower Baku dem4decades Oct 2019 #12
Hello Israel . . . Iliyah Oct 2019 #3
They're paying rapt attention. herding cats Oct 2019 #10
In order to avoid 2naSalit Oct 2019 #4
Assad's forces are his Syrian loyalists and Iranian regular army, and some Russians. roamer65 Oct 2019 #5
This gets very confusing. Wasn't there a photo of Erdogan, Putin and MarcA Oct 2019 #7
Erdogan is a cultist liar. roamer65 Oct 2019 #8
Gee, how.....disloyal brooklynite Oct 2019 #6
Not "U. S.-allied" ... It's now 'Trump-betrayed'. keithbvadu2 Oct 2019 #11
+1 Hugin Oct 2019 #16
Follow the money folks gab13by13 Oct 2019 #13
Geographically, that doesn't make any sense muriel_volestrangler Oct 2019 #14
The headline is wrong. It should say... Hugin Oct 2019 #15
This is God Damned infuriating! BadGimp Oct 2019 #17
non Paywall ver: nbcnews.com BadGimp Oct 2019 #18

cstanleytech

(26,080 posts)
9. He might win even more if what I suspect is going to happen which is we are probably going to see
Sun Oct 13, 2019, 10:01 PM
Oct 2019

in a few years which is Russia invading Georgia and Azerbaijan and when both countries plea for help Turkey will refuse to allow the US to use its troops and airbases it has there as a part of hidden deal Turkey made with Putin over this.
Why those two countries? Money from controlling a major pipeline between the Caspian to the Black Sea.

herding cats

(19,549 posts)
10. They're paying rapt attention.
Sun Oct 13, 2019, 10:03 PM
Oct 2019

Players being played and everyone is going to end up losing here except Putin before this ugly act has fully played out.

The evangelicals might get to finally say once and for all if the epic war they've been lusting after in the ME brings their Armageddon on and their pretend rapture, or if it just slaughters a massive amounts of people and breaks the world.

roamer65

(36,739 posts)
5. Assad's forces are his Syrian loyalists and Iranian regular army, and some Russians.
Sun Oct 13, 2019, 08:17 PM
Oct 2019

This is the beginning of a very big Middle East war.

MarcA

(2,195 posts)
7. This gets very confusing. Wasn't there a photo of Erdogan, Putin and
Sun Oct 13, 2019, 09:03 PM
Oct 2019

the Iranian, don't remember his name, from just a couple months ago
pledging some sort of allegiance?

gab13by13

(20,849 posts)
13. Follow the money folks
Sun Oct 13, 2019, 11:27 PM
Oct 2019

This is all about oil and gas pipelines. Russia is administering over oil and gas pipelines from Iran and Iraq. Those pipelines cross through Syria and, wait for it, terminate in Ukraine on their way to Europe. Qatar just discovered natural gas but Assad refuses it permission to cross through Syria. Russia needed to keep Assad in power because of those pipelines, that's why he allied with him.

muriel_volestrangler

(101,145 posts)
14. Geographically, that doesn't make any sense
Mon Oct 14, 2019, 03:22 AM
Oct 2019

Syria is on the Mediterranean. To get to Ukraine from there, you'd have to turn north and go across Turkey and the Black Sea. "Terminate ... on their way" is a contradiction, too.

Hugin

(32,769 posts)
15. The headline is wrong. It should say...
Mon Oct 14, 2019, 11:21 AM
Oct 2019

"Formerly U. S.-allied Kurds strike deal to bring Assad's Syrian troops back into Kurdish areas."

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