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A poll conducted in Turkey during the operation revealed that 90 percent of respondents believed that the United States is "behind" the Kurdish PKK and YPG. [361] After the start of the Turkish invasion, US Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis stated that "Turkey is a NATO ally. It's the only NATO country with an active insurgency inside its borders.
The U.S. intervention in the Syrian civil war is the United States-led support of Syrian opposition and Rojava during the course of the Syrian civil war and active military involvement led by the United States and its allies — the militaries of the United Kingdom, France, Jordan, Turkey, Canada, Australia and more — against the Islamic ...
The following is a list of United States′s attacks on forces belonging to, or allied with the Syrian government during the Syrian Civil War.Other than the April 2017 Shayrat missile strike and the April 2018 missile strikes, all other attacks were officially announced by the Pentagon as having been carried out in defense of either the Syrian Democratic Forces or the Revolutionary Commando ...
The US Central Command stated that pro-government forces had "initiated an unprovoked attack against well-established Syrian Democratic Forces headquarters" in the area, while coalition service members were "co-located with SDF partners during the attack 8 kilometers (5 mi) east of the agreed-upon Euphrates River de-confliction line".
The United States lifts a $10-million reward it placed for the arrest of HTS leader Ahmed al-Sharaa following meetings between HTS officials and US diplomats in Damascus. [70] The IDF opens fire on demonstrators protesting against the Israeli invasion in Ma'ariya, Daraa Governorate, injuring one person. [71]
Syria's Foreign Ministry told the Associated Press that the U.S. informed Syria's envoy to the U.N. that "strikes will be launched against the terrorist group in Raqqa". [271] The United States informed the Free Syrian Army beforehand of the impending airstrikes, and the rebels said that weapons transfers to the Free Syrian Army had begun. [272]
[74] [75] The meetings between United States officials and Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham officials talked about the many missing U.S. citizens including the journalist Austin Tice, this meeting was the first meeting in over a decade in Syria between the United States and the Syrian government and the main goal, according to the United States Department ...
Turkey and the United States struck a deal in August 2019 after months of Turkish threats to unilaterally invade northern Syria. The United States viewed the Syrian Democratic Forces as one of its key allies in the military intervention against ISIL in Syria, while Turkey viewed the group as an extension of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK ...