Turkish President Erdogan is opposed to the Kurdish separatists and the US support of them. In 2016 Erdogan ordered an invasion into Syria to counter the threat of the Kurdish terrorists SDF and YPG on the Turkish border. Trump promised to pull out of Syria in a phone call with Erdogan in 2019, but the Pentagon would not allow Trump to fulfill his promise to their NATO ally.
On August 3, a Turkish drone strike on a car killed four members of the SDF and wounded two.
The F-35 deployment was first announced recently by the Pentagon as part of a package of forces heading to the region, including a destroyer and the USS Bataan amphibious assault ship with US Marines.
On July 23, a Russian Su-35 fighter unleashed flares that damaged a propeller blade on an American MQ-9 drone. On July 26, another Russian fighter damaged an American drone over Syria with flares,
A massive armed conflict is brewing on the east and west sides of the Euphrates River in eastern Syria. The US occupation forces and the Syrian Arab Army and its allies are the possible combatants. This conflict could spark a regional war, and there seems to be no peace plans on the drawing borad.
Steven Sahiounie is a two-time award-winning journalist
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