Or the “cease-fire” / “pause” was not agreed to by the forces on the ground. ISIS or ISIS sympathizers or just independent fighters stepping in to fill the leadership void created?
If they don’t stop, then how about we drop a nice big MOAB on their sorry asses!
No big deal. Except for this one location there is calm according to the article. It can take time for the orders to filter down to all the commanders and then on to all troop locations.
After ABC deliberately aired that fake attack by Turkey, I'm hesitant to believe anything anymore that is being reported from Syria.
This morning on Fox they showed smoke rising from some Syrian town, claiming it was from a shelling after the cease fire was announced. How do we know the video wasn't taken last week? And why only a couple locations where smoke was rising? It just didn't make sense.....
Or maybe the Kurds just don’t want to be forced to leave?
>>>Or the “cease-fire” / “pause” was not agreed to by the forces on the ground
The agreement reached was between the US and Turkey. The Kurds were not part of the deal. The deal essentially gives Turkey all that it sought from the start.
After the Kurdish forces are cleared from the safe zone, Turkey has committed to a permanent cease-fire but is under no obligation to withdraw its troops. In addition, the deal gives Turkey relief from sanctions the administration had imposed and threatened to impose since the invasion began, meaning there will be no penalty for the operation.
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.
Here’s our first clue: ‘journalists say...’
They just revel in ANY little manufactured crisis they can invent to slam our President.
*SPIT*
Perhaps it is just the Chicago of the area?
Let the Russians deal with it.
Oh looky. Muslims are killing each other again. What a shock.
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