A US soldier sits atop an armoured vehicle during a demonstration by Syrian Kurds against Turkish threats next to a base for the US-led international coalition on the outskirts of Ras al-Ain town in Syria's Hasakeh province near the Turkish border on October 6, 2019. - US forces in Syria started pulling back today from Turkish border areas, opening the way for Ankara's threatened military invasion and heightening fears of a jihadist resurgence. DELIL SOULEIMAN
Newsweek: Exclusive: Turkey Bombs US Special Forces in Syria Attack, Apparently by Mistake
A contingent of U.S. Special Forces has been caught up in Turkish shelling against U.S.-backed Kurdish positions in northern Syria, days after President Donald Trump told his Turkish counterpart he would withdraw U.S. troops from certain positions in the area.
Newsweek has learned through both an Iraqi Kurdish intelligence official and senior Pentagon official that Special Forces operating on Mashtenour hill in the majority-Kurdish city of Kobani fell under artillery fire from Turkish forces conducting their so-called "Operation Peace Spring" against Kurdish fighters backed by the U.S. but considered terrorist organizations by Turkey.
The senior Pentagon official said that Turkish forces should be aware of U.S. positions "down to the grid." The official could not specify the exact number of personnel present, but indicated they were "small numbers below company level," so somewhere between 15 and 100 troops.
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6 comments:
It is Newsweek. They screw up their big stories, almost every time. I'd wait for non Newsweek sources.
The same Newsweek that was sold for $1 in 2010?
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For the record, Turkey is invading Syria who is allied with Russia. That s our strategic play. The have allied with the GOS. They need to find who could be the better long term friend: Turkey or Syria.
The Kurds.
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Story being walked by Pentagon. Now saying one shell landed non general vicinity of the base.
https://twitter.com/MacaesBruno/status/1182769879625146370
See? Newsweek. All the brains of a common household door knob.
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