Turkish forces 'mainly use our equipment, we want to make sure the equipment is ready when they need to use it,' according to Turkey's state-run Anadolu Agency.
The White House is willing to offer some military assistance to Turkey to assist an insurgency against neighboring Syria, which has received support from Russia and Iran, a senior U.S. diplomat said Tuesday.
Both outlets also cited David Satterfield, Washington's ambassador to Ankara, as saying that the Trump administration was also studying a Turkish request to send Patriot surface-to-air missile systems.that, in Jeffrey's comments regarding military supplies,"there is nothing particularly new here as he was talking in the context of what we are already doing."
A Russian Air Force Sukhoi Su-34 flies over the city of Binnish in the eastern part of the Idlib province in northwestern Syria, March 3. Both Russian and Syrian warplanes are active in combat operations in Idlib but Turkey has so far only blamed Syria for attacks that killed Turkish troops.
led to a severe escalation in their feud and additional, more comprehensive retaliatory attacks from Ankara and its partners on the ground.Despite taking new personnel and material losses of its own, the Syrian army managed to retake the strategic town of Saraqeb on Monday. Russia then deployed military police to enforce this gain, which is located on the axis of the M5 and M4 highways.
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