Turkish forces continued their advance into northeastern Syria Thursday after launching an air and ground offensive against Kurdish fighters, the Turkish defense ministry said.
The defense ministry claimed it had struck 181 of what it called terrorist targets with the support of air forces and artillery units. For its part, the SDF claimed to have repelled a Turkish ground attack in the border area of Tal Abyad.
"America is better than this. Please stand up to Turkey, Mr. President," Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., a Trump loyalist, tweeted overnight, adding that the U.S.'s Kurdish allies had been"shamelessly" abandoned."Military action would not only not diminish that country’s security concerns," Iran's foreign ministry said in a statement, referring to Turkey,"but also cause financial and humanitarian damages.
"As a result of our work, we were able to save the international community from the threat of the ISIS. We fought together on the front lines and spend many sleepless nights,""Unfortunately our foes in the region are conspiring to destroy our people." Smoke rises over the Syrian town of Ras al-Ain, as seen from the Turkish border town of Ceylanpinar, Sanliurfa province, Turkey, on Thursday.“This morning I haven’t heard the sound of bombardments but in the afternoon at something like 4 p.m. when it’s going to get dark I think then they’ll start again to shell the city,” he said by phone.
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