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Pentagon Wants Kurdish YPG Forces to Protect Syria's Manbij From Daesh
Pentagon Wants Kurdish YPG Forces to Protect Syria's Manbij From Daesh
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Kurds may be among local forces remaining in the Syrian city of Manbij to secure it against potential attack by Daesh terror group, but the People's Protection... 22.11.2016, Sputnik International
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Pentagon Wants Kurdish YPG Forces to Protect Syria's Manbij From Daesh
23:08 GMT 22.11.2016 (Updated: 23:10 GMT 22.11.2016) Kurds may be among local forces remaining in the Syrian city of Manbij to secure it against potential attack by Daesh terror group, but the People's Protection Units (YPG) have moved east of the Euphrates, US Department of Defense spokesman Peter Cook said on Tuesday.
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — Cook explained that a number of the fighters now in Manbij may be Kurds who lived in the city before it was occupied by Daesh.
"There are local forces in Manbij now that are security Manbij against the threat of [Daesh] returning, and we’ll continue to address Turkish concerns about the makeup of those forces, but we heard very publicly from the YPG that they were moving east of the Euphrates," Cook told reporters.
22 November 2016, 19:26 GMT
Last week, the YPG said its forces in Manbij had completed their mission of liberating Manbij from Daesh and would relocate east of the Euphrates River.
On Friday, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said Turkey was still waiting for the United States to deliver on its promise of ensuring the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) had left Manbij.
Ankara considers the PYD and YPG to be extensions of the Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK), a designated terror group in Turkey as well as in the United States.
