[BobL]

Looks like the PKK (i.e., the Communists there) is about to get CRUSHED!!!

Oh well...

[DoodleDawg]

The conflict prompted officials to call an emergency meeting Thursday of the United Nations Security Council, AFP reported.

Well thank God for that! </sarcasm>

[Openurmind]

"Mustafa Bali, a spokesman for the U.S.-backed Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, said Turkish warplanes started carrying out airstrikes on civilian targets Wednesday."

Is this true? Or is this meant to be deceptive reporting?

[Steve_Seattle]

"Our mission is to prevent the creation of a terror corridor across our southern border, and to bring peace to the area."

If that is really the goal, why is everyone condemning Trump's American pullout? It's their border, they have their own army, let them do their own fighting. Our so-called allies, the Kurds, have their own objectives, so let them fight for them.

[immadashell]

Who is winning?
Who is losing?
Does anybody give a sh*t?

[gandalftb]

Turkey has wanted a buffer zone along the northern border of Syria east of the Euphrates. Erdogan announced this buffer zone weeks ago at the UN and is headed to DC next month.

The SDF/Kurds occupied that area 3 years ago to seal off the border crossings by ISIS, that Turkey wouldn’t stop. Now Turkey wants to control those crossings being used by the Kuyrd PKK for cross-border attacks into Turkey.

We had 4 observation posts in the area that we abandoned.

Syria has upwards of a dozen armed militias all fighting each other. It is a civil war from village to village.

Right now it is shelling only of PKK positions. Turkey has been performing airstrikes against the PKK all over Kurdistan, including Iraq.