U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said yesterday that the U.S. military will install observation posts along Syria's northern border with Turkey to help minimize tensions between the Turks and Washington's Kurdish allies in the fight against the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group, the AFP (Agence France-Presse) website reports today (November 22, 2018).
"We are putting in observation posts in several locations up along the northern Syrian border," Mattis told reporters.
He added that the goal was to ensure the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which includes the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia, "are not drawn off that fight," so "that we can crush what's left of the geographic caliphate. "
They will be very clearly marked locations day and night so that the Turks know where they're at," he added, noting that the decision was taken in close cooperation with Turkey.
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