LIE LIE LIE
It is now a momentary lapse........PAUSE
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/pence-arrives-in-turkey-as-us-seeks-to-halt-erdogans-syria-offensive/2019/10/17/55b806aa-f04c-11e9-bb7e-d2026ee0c199_story.html
ISTANBUL — Turkey agreed Thursday to a cease-fire that would suspend its march into Syria and temporarily halt a week of vicious fighting with Kurdish forces, while allowing President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government to carve out a long-coveted buffer zone far beyond its borders.
The agreement, announced by Vice President Pence after hours of negotiations, appeared to hand Turkey’s leader most of what he sought when his military launched an assault on northeastern Syria just over a week ago: the expulsion of Syrian Kurdish militias from the border and the removal of a U.S. threat to impose sanctions on Turkey’s vulnerable economy.
Pence said Turkey had agreed to pause its offensive for five days while the United States helped facilitate the withdrawal of Kurdish-led forces, called the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), from a large swath of territory stretching from Turkey’s border nearly 20 miles south into Syria. After the completion of the Kurdish withdrawal, Turkey’s military operation, which began Oct. 9, would be “halted entirely,” Pence said.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/fighting-flares-in-syria-despite-hours-old-cease-fire-11571390556
By
Sune Engel Rasmussen in Duhok, Iraq and
Raja Abdulrahim in Istanbul
Updated Oct. 18, 2019 12:21 pm ET
Fighting between Turkish and Kurdish forces flared on Friday in northeastern Syria, with each side blaming the other for the resumption in violence that threatened to upend a day-old cease-fire deal the U.S. brokered to halt Turkey’s offensive.
On Thursday, the U.S. and Turkey had agreed that Ankara would suspend military operations so Kurdish fighters could lay down arms and leave the area.
President Trump said Friday that Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, told him in a phone call that “minor sniper and mortar fire” that followed the declaration of a cease-fire has been stopped. Mr. Trump said on Twitter that Mr. Erdogan “very much wants the ceasefire, or pause, to work” and that Kurdish fighters do as well.
A U.S. official said most of the fighting has stopped but that it would take time for orders to stop the combat to filter through the ranks.
Still, sporadic clashes, drone strikes and artillery shelling resumed overnight and increased into Friday morning around the Syrian border town of Ras al-Ain, according to people living in the area and two officials in the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, or SDF.
One strike hit a hospital in Ras al-Ain, according to the Kurdish Red Crescent.
SDF commanders appealed for a pause in fighting. “As part of the agreement the clashes must stop and the strikes must stop,” said the SDF commander Khabour Akaad. “But until now it hasn’t stopped.”
Fighting Flares in Syria Despite Hours-Old Cease-Fire
Sporadic clashes, drone strikes and artillery shelling increased into Friday morning; Trump says Erdogan told him minor sniper and mortar fire has stopped
It is now a momentary lapse........PAUSE
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/pence-arrives-in-turkey-as-us-seeks-to-halt-erdogans-syria-offensive/2019/10/17/55b806aa-f04c-11e9-bb7e-d2026ee0c199_story.html
ISTANBUL — Turkey agreed Thursday to a cease-fire that would suspend its march into Syria and temporarily halt a week of vicious fighting with Kurdish forces, while allowing President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government to carve out a long-coveted buffer zone far beyond its borders.
The agreement, announced by Vice President Pence after hours of negotiations, appeared to hand Turkey’s leader most of what he sought when his military launched an assault on northeastern Syria just over a week ago: the expulsion of Syrian Kurdish militias from the border and the removal of a U.S. threat to impose sanctions on Turkey’s vulnerable economy.
Pence said Turkey had agreed to pause its offensive for five days while the United States helped facilitate the withdrawal of Kurdish-led forces, called the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), from a large swath of territory stretching from Turkey’s border nearly 20 miles south into Syria. After the completion of the Kurdish withdrawal, Turkey’s military operation, which began Oct. 9, would be “halted entirely,” Pence said.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/fighting-flares-in-syria-despite-hours-old-cease-fire-11571390556
By
Sune Engel Rasmussen in Duhok, Iraq and
Raja Abdulrahim in Istanbul
Updated Oct. 18, 2019 12:21 pm ET
Fighting between Turkish and Kurdish forces flared on Friday in northeastern Syria, with each side blaming the other for the resumption in violence that threatened to upend a day-old cease-fire deal the U.S. brokered to halt Turkey’s offensive.
On Thursday, the U.S. and Turkey had agreed that Ankara would suspend military operations so Kurdish fighters could lay down arms and leave the area.
President Trump said Friday that Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, told him in a phone call that “minor sniper and mortar fire” that followed the declaration of a cease-fire has been stopped. Mr. Trump said on Twitter that Mr. Erdogan “very much wants the ceasefire, or pause, to work” and that Kurdish fighters do as well.
A U.S. official said most of the fighting has stopped but that it would take time for orders to stop the combat to filter through the ranks.
Still, sporadic clashes, drone strikes and artillery shelling resumed overnight and increased into Friday morning around the Syrian border town of Ras al-Ain, according to people living in the area and two officials in the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, or SDF.
One strike hit a hospital in Ras al-Ain, according to the Kurdish Red Crescent.
SDF commanders appealed for a pause in fighting. “As part of the agreement the clashes must stop and the strikes must stop,” said the SDF commander Khabour Akaad. “But until now it hasn’t stopped.”
Fighting Flares in Syria Despite Hours-Old Cease-Fire
Sporadic clashes, drone strikes and artillery shelling increased into Friday morning; Trump says Erdogan told him minor sniper and mortar fire has stopped
