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 CBSs 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
at140
(6,110 posts)dem4decades
(11,241 posts)cstanleytech
(26,080 posts)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.
dem4decades
(11,241 posts)Iliyah
(25,111 posts)Kurds may become Iran's good friends.
herding cats
(19,549 posts)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.
2naSalit
(86,031 posts)complete annihilation... people will do whatever they must to survive.
roamer65
(36,739 posts)This is the beginning of a very big Middle East war.
MarcA
(2,195 posts)the Iranian, don't remember his name, from just a couple months ago
pledging some sort of allegiance?
roamer65
(36,739 posts)This is going to get very interesting, very soon.
brooklynite
(93,834 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,360 posts)Not "U. S.-allied" ... It's now 'Trump-betrayed'.
You can bet that's how this would've been played when President Obama was in office.
gab13by13
(20,849 posts)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)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)"Formerly U. S.-allied Kurds strike deal to bring Assad's Syrian troops back into Kurdish areas."
BadGimp
(4,009 posts)eom