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Turkey has announced that its troops will fire on any Kurds remaining near the Turkish border:<\/p>\n
https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/2019\/10\/28\/turkey-will-attack-kurdish-fighters-who-remain-near-border-with-syria\/<\/a><\/p>\n ANKARA, Turkey \u2014 Turkey\u2019s foreign minister said Monday that his country\u2019s military will attack any Syrian Kurdish fighter that remains along the border area in northeast Syria after a deadline for them to leave expires.<\/p>\n Mevlut Cavusoglu told reporters that Russian and Syrian officials provided information that some Kurdish fighters had pulled out of the border area, but others still had not. The Kurdish withdrawal is in line with\u00a0a Russian-Turkish agreement<\/a>\u00a0reached last week.<\/p>\n The\u00a0Syrian Kurdish fighters\u00a0<\/a>have until 3 p.m. GMT Tuesday to pull back to positions about 30 kilometers (20 miles) from the Turkish border. Turkey and Russia will conduct joint patrols along a border strip once the Kurdish forces leave. Cavusoglu said a Russian military delegation was scheduled to arrive in Turkey to discuss the planned joint patrols.<\/p>\n Turkey is to keep sole control of a large section in the center of the border, most of which it captured in its invasion launched Oct. 9. Turkey wanted to drive the U.S.-allied Kurdish forces out of a \u201csafe zone\u201d along the border, after U.S. President Donald\u00a0Trump pulled American troops from the area<\/a>. Syrian Kurdish forces have turned to Russia and the Syrian government in Damascus for protection. – article<\/p>\n There has never been anything but warfare in the Middle East, not since people started domesticating wheat and barley, cattle, sheep and goats, and learned how to build houses to live in. Unless or until something changes drastically, that won’t stop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"