Thursday,
January 5, 2017 3:40 PM
Turkey has
declined the US military’s offer to provide air support for its troops in
Syria, asking Russia to take on the role instead, American officials say.
Two US
military officials said that Ankara, which has been fighting militants inside
the Syrian territories, has accepted air power from Moscow over the past few
days, the NBC News reported Wednesday.
This is
while, the Turks have turned down the US-led coalition’s help, the officials
claimed.
Back in
August, Turkey launched an incursion into Syria, claiming that the military
operation was meant to engage both ISIS terrorists in the Syrian-Turkish border
area and Kurdish forces, who were themselves fighting Daesh.
Damascus has
on multiple occasions condemned Ankara’s intervention as a breach of its
sovereignty.
In December,
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stressed that the US had failed to keep
its promise of air support in Ankara’s operations in the Arab country, mainly
in the city of al-Bab, which has proven a tough battle for the Turks.
"Even
though the US-led coalition has failed to keep its promises [pledging air
support] in our operation to liberate al-Bab, we will rid the city of Daesh
terrorists, no matter what," Erdogan said back then.
The
complaints continued on Wednesday, with Turkish Defense Minister Fikri Isik
saying that he lack of US air support was fueling negative public sentiments
over Washington’s use of Turkey’s Incirlik airbase.
This is while
the American military forces have conducted flights over the city as a show of
force without dropping any bombs.
According to
NBC, when one of the military officials was asked whether Russia was pounding
Daesh in the city, he said “for now they are.”
Al-Bab sits
between Aleppo and Manbij, the city that was liberated last year with help from
the US-backed Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG).
Turkey is
said to be among the main supporters of militant groups in Syria and stands
accused of training and arming Takfiri elements, facilitating their passage
into the violence-wracked country, and buying smuggled oil from militants,
Press TV reported.
Original
post: alalam.ir
The USA is
sure losing many allies it is evident in SE Asia I guess it’s because of the
internal interference the USA often exercised.
In Asia they currently have Australia, India, Japan, Taiwan and Singapore. S.Korea is on the
fence and I guess the new leader might be China friendly. It is evident of the sudden silence by USA in
SC Sea.
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