MESOP NEWS : US WANT STOP PKK/PYD KURDS IN SYRIA
| 8 March 2018 – Turkey asked Washington to stop Kurdish commanders from sending more troops to Afrin, the Kurdish stronghold in Syria’s west that Turkey invaded last month. |
| Besides creating a diplomatic quandary, the Kurdish deployment to Afrin is depriving the U.S. of allied troops in the campaign to stamp out the last vestiges of the Islamic State. By Anne Barnard NEW YORK TIMES – More https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/07/world/middleeast/turkey-syria-us-afrin.html?emc=edit_mbe_20180308&nl=morning-briefing-europe&nlid=73143833&te=1 |