Turkey has dispatched military reinforcements to northern Syria, which is held by US-backed Kurdish militants, as American troops prepare to leave the Arab country.
The so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said on Saturday that dozens of Turkish tanks and heavy weapons had been deployed to a region between the cities of Jarabulus and Manbij, both situated in Syria’s Aleppo Province.
“About 35 tanks and other heavy weapons, carried aboard tank carriers, crossed the Jarabulus border crossing in the early evening,” SOHR head Rami Abdel Rahman said.
“They headed for an area near the Sajur River, between Jarabulus and Manbij, not far from the front lines where Kurdish fighters of the Manbij Military Council are stationed.”
The fresh military build-up comes a few days after President Donald Trump ordered a quick withdrawal of all 2,000 US forces from Syria claiming victory over the ISIL Takfiri terrorist group in the war-stricken state.
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