Contents tagged with Syrian Kurds
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Media: Damascus and Kurds agree to bring Syrian army into Afrin
Both the Syrian government and the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) have agreed that Damascus’s forces should be brought into Afrin in order to “repel the attack by Turkey”, reported the TV channel Al-Mayadeen with reference to its own sources in Syria.
The source clarified that the agreement was reached after the relevant negotiations. According to Al-Mayadeen’s sources in the republic, Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad has announced that the movement of Syrian forces into …
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Media reports indicate that the United States supplied Syrian Kurds with 130 truckloads of weapons over the past 10 days
The United States continues to supply arms to the members of the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) to fight the terrorist organization the Islamic State. Over the past 10 days, 130 trucks laden with weapons arrived in the PYD-controlled regions of Syria, Anadolu reports.
Earlier, US President Donald Trump signed plans to supply Syrian Kurds with heavy weapons such as mortars and machine guns. Possible supplies of weapons to the Kurds caused the sharp displeasure of Ankara, which …
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Pentagon confirms start of weapons deliveries to Syrian Kurds
The United States has begun supplying arms and equipment to Kurdish fighters participating in the operation to liberate the Syrian city of Raqqa from ISIS terrorists, as reported by Russia’s TASS news agency citing the Pentagon's press office.
“I can confirm that the U.S. led coalition began supplying weapons and equipment to the Kurdish forces of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF),” Pentagon spokesman Eric Pahon said. According to him, the weapons include “small arms, ammunition, heavy …