The US has given Turkey a green light to send its forces into northern Syria, posing a threat to the West's Kurdish allies in the region.
"Turkey will soon be moving forward with its long-planned operation into northern Syria," the White House said in a statement on Sunday (6 October) after US president Donald Trump spoke with Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan by phone.
The 150 or so US special forces that had been stationed there "will not support or be involved in the operat...
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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.