Turkey opened its offensive after Trump spoke by phone on Sunday with Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan and withdrew US troops who had been fighting alongside Kurdish forces.
Five Islamic State fighters fled a jail there, and foreign women from the group being held in a camp torched tents and attacked guards with sticks and stones, the Kurds said. An explosion occurred near a US military outpost in northern Syria on Friday, but no personnel were reported hurt and the source of the blast near Kobane was unclear, a US official said.
“There was no firing on the US observation post,” it said. The firing was halted when the US military alerted Turkish forces, the ministry said.Erdogan dismissed criticism of the assault and said it “will not stop… no matter what anyone says.” Sanctions have been demanded by Republican congressional critics of Trump’s policy but it was unclear how effective they might be when Ankara had already committed troops to the incursion.
The Syrian Democratic Forces , with the Kurdish YPG as its main fighting element, now holds most of the territory that once made up Islamic State’s “caliphate” in Syria, and has been keeping thousands of fighters from the jihadist group in jail and tens of thousands of their family members in camps.On Friday, Turkish warplanes and artillery struck around Syria’s Ras al Ain, one of two border towns that have been the focus of the offensive, now in its third day.
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